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1000 Drams Bear
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 1000 Drams |
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| Obverse lettering | 2004 ԼԵՌՆԱՅԻՆ ՂԱՐԱԲԱՂԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ ԱՐՑԱԽ 1000 ՀԱՋԱՐ `ԱՐՑԱԽՅԱՉ ԴՐԱՄ` 999 (Translation: Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Artsakh) |
| Reverse description | A finely detailed depiction of a brown bear (Ursus arctos) standing upright in the central field, its head raised with mouth open, set against a naturalistic rocky mountain landscape with grasses in the foreground. The species name 'BEAR' appears in the lower central field. An Armenian-script legend 'ՊԱՉՊԱՆԵՆՔ ՎԱՅՐԻ ՎԵՆԴԱՆԻՆԵՐԻՆ' arcs around the upper border, while 'WILDLIFE PROTECTION' runs along the lower border in Latin script. |
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The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic — a de facto Armenian-administered state internationally recognized by virtually no sovereign government — issued its own coinage beginning in the early 2000s largely as an assertion of political identity rather than for any practical monetary function. Armenian drams circulated in daily commerce; these pieces did not. The 1000 Drams denomination exists at a face value that bore no meaningful relationship to how these coins were actually distributed or priced.
KM#20a designates the silver variant, distinguished from a base-metal issue of the same type.