Everything about Armah totally explained
Armah (c.
614) was a king of
Axum. He is primarily known through the coins minted during his reign, although it has been suggested as long ago as 1895 that he was identical to
Ashama ibn Abjar, who gave shelter to the
Muslim emigrants around
615-6 at
Axum.
Munro-Hay states that either he or
Gersem were the last Axumite kings to issue coins. In either case, no gold coins of Armah have been found, and Munro-Hay speculates that "he had accepted that there was no purpose in producing them, as his kingdom was by now at least in part cut off from the
Byzantine trade network."
Armah's silver coins have an unusual reverse, showing a structure with three crosses, the middle one gilded, that Munro-Hay quotes W.R.O. Hahn as suggesting that this refers to the
Holy Sepulchre, as a reference to the
Persian capture of
Jerusalem in 614; if this is correct, it provides a date for Armah.
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