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1000 Dram Voskan Yerevantsi
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Value | 1000 Dram |
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| Reverse description | Left-facing bust portrait of Voskan Yerevantsi, the celebrated 17th-century Armenian printer and ecclesiastic, depicted in low to medium relief in the manner of a stone effigy, with a full beard and holding an open book cradled in both hands before him. The portrait occupies the left half of the field against a polished background. To the right, the Armenian legend ՎՈՍԿԱՆ ԵՐԵՎԱՆՑԻ appears in two lines in stylised Armenian script, followed by the numeral 400, the Armenian word ամյակ (anniversary), and the Latin transliteration VOSKAN YEREVANTSI below. |
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| Reverse lettering | ՎՈՍԿԱՆ ԵՐԵՎԱՆՑԻ 400 ամյակ VOSKAN YEREVANTSI (Translation: 400th Anniversary of Voskan Yerevantsi) |
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Voskan Yerevantsi was a 17th-century Armenian bishop and scholar who established the first Armenian-language printing press in Amsterdam in 1660, producing editions of the Bible and liturgical texts that became foundational to Armenian literary culture during a period when the homeland was divided between Ottoman and Safavid Persian rule. His press allowed diaspora communities to maintain a written language tradition under conditions where physical manuscript production had become nearly impossible.
Armenia's commemorative silver program has issued dozens of cultural figures in this format. Yerevantsi is among the more historically defensible choices.