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25 000 Drams Maps

Issuer Artsakh
Year 1998
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Reference(s) KM#13
Obverse description The national arms of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic depicted centrally, featuring a double-headed eagle with wings displayed, bearing a shield on its breast charged with a traditional Armenian motif, surmounted by a crown. The arms are encircled by an Armenian inscription in Armenian script. The date 1998 appears in the upper field flanked by two sprigs of olive or laurel, and the denomination 25000 is inscribed in the lower field. A circular Armenian legend in Armenian script surrounds the lower portion of the design, with the fineness mark .999 to the right.
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Obverse lettering ԼԵՌՆԱՅԻՆ ՂԱՐԱԲԱՂԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ · 25000 · 1998 · .999
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Artsakh — internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but administered by ethnic Armenians following the brutal 1991–1994 war — issued this coin as an assertion of statehood through numismatic means. The self-declared republic had no internationally accepted currency, and these silver issues circulated almost nowhere; they were produced primarily for the collector export market, generating hard currency for a government under sustained blockade.

KM#13 is one of several pieces from the 1998 series using cartographic imagery, a pointed political choice given that territorial boundaries remained actively disputed and unresolved at the time of minting.

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