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500 Dram
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 500 Dram |
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| Reverse lettering | ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅԱՆ ԿԵՆՏՐՈՆԱԿԱՆ ԲԱՆԿ ՀԻՆԳ ՀԱՐՅՈՒՐ ԴՐԱՄ 500 CENTRAL BANK OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA |
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| Protection description | Alexander Tamanyan's portrait visible when held to light; vertically embedded security thread running through the note. |
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| Comments |
Armenia's 1999 banknote series, of which this 500 Dram is part, was printed by Thomas De La Rue during a period when the country was still stabilizing its currency framework following the catastrophic hyperinflation of the early 1990s — the dram itself had only been introduced in 1993, replacing Soviet-era rubles circulating at a time of acute economic collapse.
De La Rue's security specification here is modest: watermark and thread, without the more elaborate features the printer was deploying on other sovereign contracts by the late 1990s. Nothing unusual about the production, but the relative simplicity reflects the fiscal constraints Armenia faced when commissioning the series.