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25 000 Drams Gregory of Narek
| Issuer | Artsakh |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the coat of arms of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, depicting an eagle with spread wings surmounted by a stepped castle tower, rendered in high relief. Two olive branches flank the upper portion of the field. The denomination 25000 appears in the lower field beneath the coat of arms. The Armenian legend ԼԵՌՆԱՅԻՆ ՂԱՐԱԲԱՂԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ ԱՐՑԱԽ (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Artsakh) is inscribed along the lower periphery, with the date 1998 positioned at the top. |
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| Reverse lettering | ԳՐԻԳՈՐ ՆԱՐԵԿԱՑԻ · 951 · 1003 · GRIGOR NAREKATSI |
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Artsakh — the self-declared republic in the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast — issued commemorative coinage during the late 1990s largely as an assertion of institutional legitimacy rather than for any monetary function. Gregory of Narek, the 10th-century Armenian monk and poet whose Book of Lamentations became one of the most venerated texts in Armenian Christianity, was canonized by the Catholic Church as a Doctor of the Church only in 2015 — centuries after his death around 1003 AD.
KM#17 places this among the early Artsakh issues, a series produced in extremely limited quantities with negligible circulation.