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1000 Dram Ani Church Tower
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the coat of arms of the Republic of Armenia, featuring a heraldic shield supported by an eagle to the left and a lion to the right, with a sword and a bundle of wheat crossed beneath the shield. The Armenian legend ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ (Republic of Armenia) arcs around the upper periphery in Armenian script. The denomination 1000 ԴՐԱՄ appears in the lower central field, with the date 1998 below, flanked by two five-pointed star ornaments serving as field separators. |
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| Reverse script | Armenian, Latin |
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Ani was the medieval capital of the Bagratid Armenian kingdom and, at its peak around 1000 AD, a city of perhaps 100,000 people — larger than London or Paris at the time. The coin was struck the same year Armenia marked the 1700th anniversary of Christianity's adoption as the state religion, and the Ani series was part of a broader numismatic program asserting cultural continuity across centuries of foreign occupation, Soviet erasure, and post-independence nation-building.
The ruined city sits in present-day Turkey, visible from the Armenian border but inaccessible for decades. That territorial dimension gives the series an edge that purely commemorative issues rarely carry.