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100 Dram Aram Khachatryan
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse description | The coat of arms of the Republic of Armenia occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield supported by an eagle to the left and a lion to the right, with crossed sword and branch at the base. The Armenian legend ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ (Republic of Armenia) curves along the upper periphery. The denomination 100 in large numerals appears below the arms, followed by ԴՐԱՄ in Armenian script and the date 2002 at the bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ 100 ԴՐԱՄ 2002 |
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Aram Khachaturian — the spelling on this coin's name renders in varying transliterations — composed the Sabre Dance in a single night in 1942 under pressure from a looming deadline for his ballet Gayane. It became one of the most performed orchestral pieces of the 20th century, though Khachaturian himself reportedly grew weary of its ubiquity. Born in Tiflis in 1903 to an Armenian bookbinder, he didn't begin formal music study until his late teens in Moscow.
Armenia's commemorative silver program of the early 2000s drew heavily on cultural figures as the young republic built a national iconographic vocabulary after Soviet dissolution.