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25 000 Drams Gregory of Narek
| Issuer | Artsakh |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 25 000 Drams (25 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1998 ԼԵՌՆԱՅԻՆ ՂԱՐԱԲԱՂԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ ԱՐՑԱԽ 25000 (Translation: Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Artsakh) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.