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500 Dram Armenian Alphabet - Զ
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 500 Dram |
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| Obverse script | Armenian, Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Part of the Central Bank of Armenia's 38-coin series dedicated to the Armenian alphabet, each piece commemorating a single letter devised by Mesrop Mashtots around 405 AD. The alphabet's creation was explicitly political — the Armenian church needed scriptures in a native script to resist Syriac and Greek ecclesiastical dominance, and within a year of its invention, the Bible had been translated in full.
Զ is the sixth letter, representing the /z/ sound, and derives ultimately from the Greek zeta through Mashtots's systematic adaptation.