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5000 Dram Boston Labyrinth - United States
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 5000 Dram |
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| Obverse script | Armenian, Latin |
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| Reverse script | Armenian, Latin |
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Armenia has issued a long-running series of collector silver coins pairing Armenian cities with international ones under a "twin cities" framework. Boston and Yerevan established their sister-city relationship in 1990, near the end of the Soviet period — driven largely by the substantial Armenian-American community concentrated in the Greater Boston area, one of the largest such diaspora populations in the United States.
The labyrinth motif connects to Boston's famously disorienting street grid, which follows colonial-era cow paths rather than any planned layout — a quirk that survived every attempt at modernization.