Catalog
5000 Dram
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Printer | Giesecke+Devrient (Giesecke & Devrient), Leipzig, Germany (1852-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Armenian-American author William Saroyan at centre-left, with a collage vignette of book covers and a gramophone to the right, set against a mountain underprint in pale rose and green guilloche. A pomegranate-shaped transparent window security element appears at lower left, with a vertical serial number in green at the far left margin. The denomination 5000 and the Armenian inscription ՀԻՆԳ ՀԱԶԱՐ ԴՐԱՄ appear at the bottom. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Transparent window |
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Armenia's shift to hybrid substrate for this denomination was part of a broader regional move toward polymer-reinforced notes, with G+D's Hybrid product offering durability closer to full polymer while retaining the tactile properties that Armenian cash-handlers expected. The transparent window is integrated into the substrate itself rather than applied as a patch — a distinction that matters for authentication.
Giesecke+Devrient has printed Armenian banknotes since the dram's introduction in the early 1990s, making this a long-standing production relationship.