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100 Dram Vardges Sureniants
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a seated Madonna with the Christ Child rendered in the style of Armenian religious iconography, the Virgin's head framed by a dotted halo arc. The figure is draped in flowing robes and holds the Child before her. The Armenian legend of the issuing authority runs vertically along the left border, with the date 2010 and denomination 100 ԴՐԱՄ inscribed in the lower portion of the field. The overall composition is contained within a rectangular format with a polished mirror field. |
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| Reverse script | Armenian, Latin |
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Vardges Sureniants (1860–1921) was among the most significant Armenian painters of the late imperial Russian period, trained in St. Petersburg and Munich before returning to document a civilization on the edge of catastrophe. He witnessed and survived the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s, and much of his mature work is inseparable from that trauma. Armenia's commemorative silver program has consistently used the 28.28g sterling format shared across dozens of national banks — but the choice of Sureniants specifically reflects a deliberate cultural recovery project that accelerated after independence in 1991.
He died in Yerevan in 1921, the year Soviet power was consolidated in Armenia.