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100 Dram Anatolian Leopard
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 100 Dram |
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| Obverse script | Armenian, Latin |
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| Reverse description | A naturalistic depiction of an Anatolian leopard (Panthera pardus tullianus) in profile, prowling to the left with its head turned forward and its spotted coat rendered in fine relief detail. The animal is shown in a low, alert stance above a suggested ground line with a small botanical element at lower right. The scientific binomial Panthera pardus tullianus arcs across the upper field in italic Latin lettering, flanked by two decorative red enamel lines. The Armenian legend ԱՌԱՋԱՎՈՐԱՍԻԱԿԱՆ ԸՆՁԱՌՅՈՒԾ curves along the lower and left periphery in Armenian script. |
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Armenia's wildlife conservation coin series drew on the country's position within the South Caucasus biodiversity hotspot, where the Anatolian leopard — a subspecies once ranging across eastern Turkey, the Caucasus, and northwestern Iran — had effectively been extirpated from Armenian territory by the late twentieth century. By 2007, confirmed sightings in Armenia were essentially nonexistent, making this issue a record of absence as much as a conservation statement.
The KM#135 attribution places it firmly within a broader Armenian commemorative program of the mid-2000s that leaned heavily on WWF partnerships for subject selection.