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25 Dram David of Sasun
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Dram (1993-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | • ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ • 1994 25 ԴՐԱՄ (Translation: Republic of Armenia, 25 Dram) |
| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a detailed rendering of the equestrian monument of David of Sassoun (Sasuntsi Davit), the legendary hero of the Armenian epic, shown astride a rearing horse and brandishing a raised sword, set upon a sculpted pedestal. The monument, which stands in Yerevan, is reproduced in high relief against a mirror-polished proof field. The Armenian legend 'ՍԱՍՈՒՆՑԻ ԴԱՎԻԹ' (David of Sassoun) arcs along the upper periphery in Armenian script. |
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Armenia's first silver commemorative series launched in 1994, the same year the country was still navigating the ceasefire that halted — but did not resolve — the Nagorno-Karabakh war. David of Sasun is the central hero of Armenia's national epic, an oral poem likely composed between the 8th and 10th centuries and only transcribed in the 19th, making his appearance on this early post-Soviet issue a deliberate act of cultural reclamation after decades of Soviet-managed Armenian identity.
The epic itself was not fully standardized until Soviet ethnographers compiled regional variants in the 1930s.