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5000 Dram Armenian Alphabet - Կ
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 5000 Dram |
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| Obverse lettering | ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ 2013 Au 999,9 5000 ԴՐԱՄ•DRAM REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA (Translation: Republic of Armenia 5,000 Dram) |
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| Edge | Segmented: reeded-plain |
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Part of a 38-coin series issued by the Central Bank of Armenia to commemorate each letter of the Armenian alphabet, itself one of the oldest alphabets still in active use. The script was created by the scholar Mesrop Mashtots around 405 AD, commissioned by the Catholicos Sahak Partev and backed by the Arsacid king Vramshapuh — a deliberate act of cultural consolidation at a moment when Armenian ecclesiastical independence from Byzantium and Persia was under pressure. Կ, or "Ken," is the sixteenth letter of the Mashtots alphabet, with a phonetic value equivalent to the unaspirated /k/.