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1000 Drams Haik Nahapet
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Armenian |
| Obverse lettering | 2004 ԼԵՌՆԱՅԻՆ ՂԱՐԱԲԱՂԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ ԱՐՑԱԽ 1000 (Translation: Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Artsakh) |
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The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic — internationally unrecognized but self-governing since the 1994 ceasefire that ended the First Karabakh War — issued collector coinage partly as a tool of soft statecraft, asserting the trappings of sovereignty that formal diplomatic recognition denied. This piece honors Hayk Nahapet, the legendary patriarch-archer of Armenian mythology credited with founding the Armenian nation, whose story appears in the 5th-century histories of Moses of Khoren. The choice is pointed: grounding a disputed state's identity in the deepest available stratum of Armenian historical memory.
Struck in 2004, nearly a decade before the Central Bank developed more elaborate commemorative programs.