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Argyros - Armeh

Features

Issuer Aksum
Kral Armeh / Alla Amidas (535-550)
Type Standart tedavül madenî paralar
Yıllar 535-555
Value Argyros
Currency Chrysos
Composition Altın plated gümüş
Ağırlık 1.1 g
Diameter 17 mm
Şekil Yuvarlak (düzensiz)
Technique Dövme
Orientation Madalya Hizalaması ↑↑
Demonetized Evet
Numara
N#
557231
Referanslar MHAC# 151
Stuart Christopher Munro-Hay, Bent Juel-Jensen; 1995. Aksumite Coinage. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
, H&K# 71
Wolfgang Reinhard Otto Hahn, Robert Keck (ed.); 2020. Münzgeschichte der Akßumitenkönige in der Spätantike = Coinage History of the Kings of Aksum in Late Antiquity. Österreichische Forschungsgesellschaft für Numismatik (Austrian Numismatic Research Society), Vienna, Austria.
, BMC Aksum# 566
Stuart Christopher Munro-Hay; 1999. Catalogue of the Aksumite Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

(en) Armored and crowned bust of the king with a cross-staff facing right, behind it another cross-staff with a handle made of a wheat ear, and a smaller cross next to the neck.

Script: Ge'ez

Lettering: ነገሠአረመሐ

Unabridged legend: ngs 'rmH

Reverse

(en) Arch supported by two columns, above it a Greek cross, cross-tipped scepter at each side, a ring hanging below the arch.

Script: Ge'ez

Lettering: ሠሀለመሰለመ

Unabridged legend: shl wslm

Mint

Aksum, modern-day Aksum, Ethiopia (290-625)

Comments

(en)

King Armah was the last Christian king of the Aksumite Empire to issue coins; he is known almost exclusively through these. With the rise of Islam and the establishment of the Umayyad Caliphate, trade with the Eastern Roman Empire ceased. The coins produced for international trade subsequently declined in importance, and the Aksumite Empire moved towards isolation. Armah is possibly identical with Ashama ibn Abjar, the Aksumite king who converted to Islam according to Muslim sources.

-Rhenumis

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (535-555) 

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