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50 000 Drams Monte Melkonian
| Issuer | Artsakh |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the coat of arms of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh), depicting a spread eagle with a shield on its breast, surrounded by a radiate sunburst design and encircled by an Armenian legend. Two olive or wheat branches flank the upper portion of the design. The date 1998 appears in the upper exergue, and the denomination 50000 is inscribed below the central device. An Armenian-script legend reading 'fifty thousand Artsakh drams' curves along the lower periphery of the coin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1998 ԼԵՌՆԱՅԻՆ ՂԱՐԱԲԱՂԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ ԱՐՑԱԽ 50000 (Translation: Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Artsakh) |
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Monte Melkonian was a California-born Armenian-American commander who became one of the most effective military leaders of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, killed by a grenade in June 1993 before the ceasefire he helped make possible. Artsakh — internationally unrecognized and operating with no formal monetary infrastructure — issued this coin as a declaration of political identity as much as anything else. The KM#2a designation distinguishes this gold-plated silver variant from the pure gold KM#2, both struck to the same massive 155.5g specification by a state that had never previously issued coinage.