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5000 Dram Armenian Alphabet - Ս
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Dram (1993-date) |
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| Obverse script | Armenian, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The Armenian letter Ս (San) is depicted in large relief at the centre of the field, rendered in a bold upright form alongside an ornately decorated variant of the same letter featuring intricate traditional Armenian knotwork and geometric interlace patterns. The complete Armenian alphabet, comprising 38 letters, encircles the central motif in a continuous legend around the periphery of the coin. |
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Part of the Central Bank of Armenia's 38-coin series commemorating each letter of the Armenian alphabet, itself created by the scholar Mesrop Mashtots around 405 AD — a script deliberately engineered to translate Christian scripture into a language that had no written form. The alphabet's invention was a political act as much as a linguistic one, designed to insulate Armenian religious identity from both Byzantine Greek and Persian Syriac cultural dominance.
Ս, pronounced roughly as a soft "s," occupies the 28th position in the classical ordering established by Mashtots.