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500 Dram Armenian Alphabet - Դ
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 500 Dram |
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| Obverse description | The Armenian national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a crowned eagle displayed above a lion passant, with a central shield bearing the traditional quarterings of historic Armenian kingdoms and Mount Ararat, flanked by a sword and an eagle feather. The Armenian legend ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ (Republic of Armenia) arcs along the upper periphery in Armenian script. The denomination 500 DRAM • ԴՐԱՄ is inscribed along the lower portion in Latin and Armenian characters, with the date 2013 to the left and the fineness mark Ag999 to the right of the arms. |
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| Mintage | 2013 - BU - 2,000 2013 - Proof - 200 |
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Part of the Central Bank of Armenia's ongoing series commemorating the Armenian alphabet — one of the most ambitious national coinage programs undertaken by a post-Soviet state — this issue covers the letter Դ (Da), the fourth letter of the script devised by Mesrop Mashtots around 405 AD. The alphabet's creation was explicitly political: with Armenian Christians relying on Greek and Syriac liturgical texts, Mashtots and Catholicos Sahak I pushed for a native script to anchor a distinct ecclesiastical and cultural identity against Byzantine and Sasanian pressure.
The series runs to 38 individual issues, one per letter. KM# 204.1 indicates the first die variant within the catalog sequence.