10 000 Dram Jean Garzou

Jean Garzou — born Garnik Zulumyan in Damascus in 1907 — was a Paris-based Armenian-Syrian painter whose large-scale allegorical murals brought him considerable recognition in postwar France, including the decoration of the Opéra-Comique. Armenia issued this coin on the centenary of his birth, part of a broader numismatic program the Central Bank ran through the 2000s honoring diaspora Armenians whose careers unfolded largely outside Soviet reach.