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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5515047, member: 110504&quot;]Very good, [USER=15481]@svessien[/USER], on all counts (...deferring judgment on AC/DC).</p><p>It&#039;s very cool how Levon&#039;s throne has armrests made of lions&#039; heads.&nbsp; ...It would be tough to find examples online, but that particular motif is a Western European medieval thing, going back to the Capetians if not the Carolingians.&nbsp; </p><p>Along with the fleur de lis Levon holds in his left hand, this issue is Yelling at you about the French influence to which Cilician Armenia was subject, thanks to the Crusades.&nbsp; As this issue demonstrates, Levon Ran with that.</p><p>Within a generation, the Rupenids of Armenia waded into the Frankish Levant at the dynastic level.&nbsp; Here&#039;s my example of the neighboring principality of Antioch; Raymond Roupen, who successfully interrupted the reign of Bohemond IV, 1216-1219.&nbsp; (Malloy, Antioch: pp. 223-4; No. 95a.&nbsp; From the Crusades-era numismatist extraordinaire, Chris Sabine.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1240202[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1240203[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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