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200 Dram Pushkin
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse script | Armenian |
| Obverse lettering | • ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ • 200 ԴՐԱՄ 1999 |
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Issued to mark the bicentennial of Alexander Pushkin's birth, this coin was struck by Armenia despite Pushkin having no particular connection to the country — a reflection of how deeply Soviet cultural policy had embedded the Russian poet as a pan-Soviet figure across all fifteen republics. The centennial in 1899 had been similarly treated as a supranational event throughout the empire.
Armenia was one of several post-Soviet states that produced commemorative issues for the 1999 anniversary, a quiet indicator of how selectively the newly independent republics were still drawing on the shared cultural inventory of the USSR.