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500 Dram Armenian Alphabet - Ծ
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Weight | 15.55 g |
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| Obverse description | The Armenian national coat of arms occupies the centre of the obverse, depicting a heraldic eagle and lion supporting a quartered shield surmounted by a sword and eagle. The circular legend ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ arcs along the upper rim in Armenian script. The date 2013 appears in the left field and the fineness mark Ag999 in the right field. The denomination 500 DRAM • ԴՐԱՄ is inscribed in large numerals and lettering across the lower portion of the field, with REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA arcing along the lower rim in Latin script. |
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| Reverse description | The Armenian letter Ծ (Č, the fourteenth letter of the Armenian alphabet) is rendered in a large, ornately decorated style at the centre of the reverse, featuring intricate filigree and foliate engraving along its body with bold polished relief elements. The complete Armenian alphabet, comprising all thirty-eight letters, encircles the central motif as a continuous border legend running around the inner rim. A small decorative floral ornament separates the beginning and end of the alphabetic sequence within the circular legend. |
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Part of the Central Bank's 38-coin series dedicated to the Armenian alphabet, each piece assigned a single letter of the Mesropian script devised by Mesrop Mashtots around 405 AD. The alphabet's creation was explicitly political — Armenian ecclesiastical authorities needed a writing system to resist the assimilationist pressure of Sasanian Persia and translate scripture away from Greek and Syriac intermediaries. Ծ, pronounced roughly as "dz," represents one of the phonemes that had no equivalent in neighboring scripts, a sound the Armenian language required its own glyph to capture.