100 Dram Charents

Features

Issuer	Armenia
Ruling authority	Republic (1991-date)
Type	Circulating commemorative coins
Year	1997
Value	100 Dram 100 AMD = USD 0.25
Currency	Dram (1993-date)
Composition	Copper-nickel
Weight	10.8 g
Diameter	29.5 mm
Thickness	2.2 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Issued	6 October 1997
Number	N# 10654
References	KM# 76 Standard Catalog of World Coins (85 volumes). , Schön# 24 Battenberg (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (3 volumes).

Commemorative issue

Charents

Obverse

National Coat of Arms, denomination below, date bottom

Script: Armenian

Lettering:
• ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ •
100
ԴՐԱՄ
1997

Translation:
Republic of Armenia
100 Dram

Reverse

Portrait of Yeghishe Charents (1897-1937), Poet's pseudonym "Charents" and year of birth below.

Scripts: Armenian, Latin

Lettering:
1897♦1997
100
ՉԱՐԵՆՑ
CHARENTS

Translation: Charents

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Royal Mint, Llantrisant, United Kingdom (1968-date)

Comments

Yéghiché (Élisée) Tcharents (Armenian Եղիշե Չարենց, Tcharents meaning "of what is evil" in grabar), born Soghomonian on March 13, 1897 in Kars and assassinated on November 27, 1937 in Yerevan, was an Armenian poet. A poet who was beheaded in his amputated homeland and died at the age of 40, the poet of the Pays Naïri is considered the father of modern Armenian literature. (Source : www.wikipedia.org)

Yéghiché Tcharents on the 1,000-dram bill.

This is an automatic translation. The original text is:

Yéghiché (Élisée) Tcharents (en arménien Եղիշե Չարենց, Tcharents signifiant « de ce qui est mal » en grabar), né Soghomonian, le 13 mars 1897 à Kars et assassiné le 27 novembre 1937 à Erevan, est un poète arménien. Poète décapité dans sa patrie amputée, mort à 40 ans, le poète du Pays Naïri est considéré comme le père de la littérature de l'Arménie moderne. (Source : www.wikipedia.org)

Yéghiché Tcharents sur le billet de 1 000 drams.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1997							$ 2.00	$ 2.70	$ 2.70	$ 2.70

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