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10 000 Dram Ivan Aivazovsky
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 10 000 Dram |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a reproduction of a seascape painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, depicting a stormy ocean scene with a large breaking wave dominating the upper portion and survivors clinging to wreckage in the turbulent foreground waters. The scene is rendered in high relief with a polished proof finish. The denomination 10000 ԴՐԱՄ appears in the lower segment below the painted scene. The circular Armenian legend reading ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ ԿԵՆՏՐՈՆԱԿԱՆ ԲԱՆԿ surrounds the design, with the date 2017 positioned at the top of the coin. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Aivazovsky was born Ivan Konstantinovich Gaivazovsky in Feodosia, Crimea in 1817, the son of an Armenian merchant. He trained at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and became one of the most prolific marine painters in 19th-century Europe, completing an estimated 6,000 works. Armenia's claim to him is ethnic rather than geographic — he spent most of his life in Crimea and never lived on Armenian soil — but he maintained strong ties to the Armenian community, funding the construction of a church and school in Feodosia.
The 2017 issue marks his bicentennial.