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5000 Dram
| Issuer | Central Bank of Armenia |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Dram (1993-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Hellenistic Garni Temple, a well-preserved Greco-Roman colonnaded structure, rendered in detailed intaglio against a fine guilloche underprint in mauve and ochre tones. The denomination 5000 appears in large numerals at upper right and again at lower left in Armenian script, with the date 1995 printed to the right. Two signatures of bank officials appear at the lower centre, flanked by repeated microprint denomination figures along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊETՈՒԹՅUNԻ ԿETՐONԱԿԱՆ ԲNUNК ԾԱՌ01474487 5000 ՀIՆԳ ՀԱZԱՐ ԴՐԱՄ |
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Armenia's first banknote series, of which this 5000 Dram is the highest denomination, was introduced in November 1993 when the dram replaced the Russian ruble at a rate of 200 rubles per dram — itself a consequence of Armenia's exclusion from the ruble zone following independence. The 1995 date on this note reflects a second print run of the inaugural series, not a redesign.
G&D's Leipzig facility has a long history with post-Soviet successor states, and the security specification here — watermark and thread only — was relatively modest even by mid-1990s standards, a likely reflection of budgetary constraints on a newly independent central bank still stabilizing its monetary system.