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50 000 Drams Monument We Are Our Mountains
| Issuer | Artsakh |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Dram (2003-2023) |
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| Obverse script | Armenian |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts the iconic 'We Are Our Mountains' (Tatik-Papik) monument of Stepanakert, rendered in stylized relief at the center of the field. Two monumental stone figures — an elderly man and woman — emerge from a triangular rocky base, their simplified facial features carved in a bold, modernist style evocative of the original sculptural work by Sargis Baghdasaryan. The bilingual legend ԱՐՑԱԽ · ARTSAKH curves along the upper arc of the field. The year 2000 appears in the lower exergue, accompanied by the fineness mark 999°, referencing the metal purity. |
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Artsakh — internationally recognized by almost no one, yet issuing its own coinage by 1998 — was a breakaway republic carved from the collapse of the Soviet Union through a war with Azerbaijan that ended in a 1994 ceasefire, not a peace treaty. The "We Are Our Mountains" monument in Stepanakert, erected by the Soviets in 1967, had by then been thoroughly reappropriated as the defining symbol of Armenian identity in the enclave. Issuing a coin around it was as much a political declaration as a numismatic exercise.
KM#4a denotes the gold-plated variant; a straight silver strike exists as KM#4.