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100 000 Dram Noah's descent from Mt. Ararat
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 100 000 Dram |
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| Obverse lettering | ★ ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ ★ 100000 ԴՐԱՄ 1999 (Translation: Republic of Armenia 100000 Dram) |
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| Reverse script | Armenian |
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Issued as part of Armenia's first gold commemorative program following independence, this piece marks the country's formal entry into sovereign bullion and collector coinage — a program the Central Bank launched in the late 1990s partly to assert international numismatic presence. The Noah connection is not incidental: Armenian tradition holds Mount Ararat as the landing site of the Ark, a claim embedded in national identity even though the mountain itself has been Turkish territory since the 1921 Treaty of Kars.
The .900 fineness follows a pre-Soviet European standard rather than the .999 now common in modern issues.