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50 Drams Owl
| Issuer | Nagorno-Karabakh Republic |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely detailed naturalistic depiction of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) perched upright on a branch, rendered in high relief with careful attention to feather texture across the body, wings, and facial disc. The bird occupies the central and right portion of the field, facing slightly to the left with prominent ear tufts visible. The denomination '50 DRAM' is inscribed in the upper left field in two lines, while the species name 'OWL' appears in the lower field below the bird, and the date '2021' is incused along the lower rim. |
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| Mintage | 2021 |
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Nagorno-Karabakh struck this coin while its political existence was already in question — the 2020 war with Azerbaijan had ended just months earlier with a Russian-brokered ceasefire that left the republic in a sharply diminished territorial state. Coinage continued as an assertion of administrative function, even as the Armenian-backed government operated under conditions of effective siege.
KM# 105 belongs to the republic's wildlife series, a program that ran for years producing aluminium bronze issues in modest quantities for a population that increasingly used Armenian drams in daily commerce.