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5000 Dram Armenian Alphabet - Ք
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A large, ornately rendered Armenian letter Ք (Kʿ) dominates the central field, its vertical stroke elaborately decorated with traditional Armenian interlace and floral motifs in relief. The remaining letters of the classical Armenian alphabet are arranged in a continuous circular legend surrounding the central letter, reading clockwise around the full periphery of the coin. A small decorative floret separates the beginning and end of the alphabetic sequence in the legend. |
| Reverse script | Armenian |
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Part of the Central Bank of Armenia's 38-coin series commemorating each letter of the Armenian alphabet — one of the most ambitious national alphabet series undertaken by any modern mint. The alphabet itself was created by Mesrop Mashtots in 405 AD, a scholarly monk who devised the script specifically to translate the Bible into Armenian and to resist cultural assimilation under Persian and Byzantine pressure. The letter Ք (Kʻ) is the 36th character in the classical ordering.