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100 Dram Charents
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | A stylised portrait of the Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents is rendered in low relief at the centre-left of the field, his face shown in a three-quarter view against a diagonally hatched background suggestive of abstract rays or lines. To the lower left, his name is inscribed in Armenian script ՉԱՐԵՆՑ integrated with large decorative numerals forming part of the centenary reference, beneath which the Latin transliteration CHARENTS appears as a straight legend. The date range 1897·1997 commemorating the centenary of his birth is inscribed vertically along the right side of the field adjacent to a stylised feather or leaf motif. |
| Reverse script | Armenian, Latin |
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Yeghishe Charents, one of the most celebrated Armenian poets of the 20th century, was arrested during Stalin's Great Purge and died in an NKVD prison in Yerevan in 1937. For decades his work was suppressed across the Soviet Union. This coin was issued sixty years after his death, part of Armenia's broader post-independence effort to rehabilitate and publicly honor figures the Soviet state had deliberately erased.