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1000 Drams Aghtamar
| Issuer | Artsakh |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 1000 Drams |
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| Obverse description | The coat of arms of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic occupies the central field, depicting a spread eagle with a shield on its breast bearing a traditional Armenian architectural motif, surrounded by a circular legend in Armenian script. Two olive branches flank the date 2004 at the top of the coin, while the denomination 1000 appears below the arms. The Armenian legend ԼԵՌՆԱՅԻՆ ՂԱՐԱԲԱՂԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ ԱՐՑԱԽ arcs around the coat of arms, and the legend ՀԱԶԱՐ ԱՐՑԱԽՅԱՆ ԴՐԱՄ appears along the lower periphery. The fineness mark °999 is positioned to the right of the arms in the field. |
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| Obverse script | Armenian |
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Artsakh — the self-declared republic governing the territory also known as Nagorno-Karabakh — issued collector coinage in the early 2000s partly as an assertion of institutional legitimacy, minting pieces that few countries would officially recognize. Aghtamar, the subject of this coin, is a tenth-century Armenian church on an island in Lake Van, located in present-day Turkey — a site of acute symbolic weight for Armenians following the catastrophic displacement of 1915.
The church sat abandoned and roofless for decades before Turkish authorities permitted a limited restoration completed around 2010.