Armenia issues first notes of new series
The Central Bank of Armenia has issued the first three notes of of the new series on 22 November 2018, on the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the national currency. The first three are the 10,000-, 20,000- and 50,000-dram notes. The second batch of new notes (1,000-, 2,000- and 5,000-dram notes) will be issued from 25 December 2018.
These new notes were designed by Edward Kurginyan, Vardan Vardanyan and Suren Simonyan. In the new series we can see that the 100,000-dram note is not present but the Central Bank stated that the current notes will continue to be used.
The faces on the new notes are:
- 1,000 dram: Paruyr Sevak
- 2,000 dram: Tigran Petrosyan
- 5,000 dram: William Saroyan
- 10,000 dram: Komitas
- 20,000 dram: Hovhannes Aivazovsky
- 50,000 dram: St. Gregory the Illuminator
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