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50 000 Drams Monte Melkonian
| Issuer | Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse script | Armenian |
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| Mintage | 1998 - Proof; Struck at Lialoosin Inc., Los Angeles, CA |
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Monte Melkonian was an Armenian-American guerrilla commander who led forces in Nagorno-Karabakh until his death in June 1993, killed by an Azerbaijani grenade fragment near Merzili. He had previously spent time in French prisons for his involvement with ASALA. The unrecognized Artsakh republic issuing gold commemoratives in 1998 was asserting a sovereignty no UN member state would recognize — these pieces were struck more for diaspora collectors than for any domestic monetary function.