Armenian dram

Dram
Country:	Armenia
Subdivision:	100 luma
ISO 4217 code :	AMD
Abbreviation:	Դ (official) d., Dr. (unofficially)
Exchange rate : (29 Mar 2020)	1  EUR  = 548.28 AMD 100 AMD = 0.18239 EUR 1  CHF  = 509.51 AMD 100 AMD = 0.19627 CHF

Currency symbol of dram

The dram ( Armenian դրամ or հայկական դրամ) is the currency of Armenia . It is issued by the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia . The currency symbol of the Dram is the capital letter Դ (da) of the Armenian alphabet crossed by two horizontal lines, this can be represented with the Unicode character code U + 058F.

1 dram is divided into 100 luma (Armenian լումա). However, Luma coins were only in circulation for a short time. The dram was introduced on November 22, 1993, it replaced the Russian ruble , 200 rubles were exchanged for 1 dram.

There are banknotes in circulation of 1,000, 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 and, since September 2009, 100,000. The following coins are in circulation: 10 Dram (two different versions made of aluminum), 20 Dram (copper), 50 Dram (copper), 100 Dram (nickel), 200 Dram ( Nordic gold ), 500 Dram (nickel / Nordic gold).

The dram is also legal tender in the internationally unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh . There is also a Nagorno-Karabakh drama .

etymology

Similar to the words for the Arabic dirham and the Anglo-American unit of measurement dram, the currency name comes from the ancient Greek drachma ( δραχμή ) and was borrowed from ancient Persian.

Banknotes

Second series (1998-2017)

The 50, 100 and 500 dram notes were taken out of circulation and replaced by coins of the same face value. The 50,000 dram banknote was introduced in 2001 in connection with the “1700 years of Christianity in Armenia” anniversary.

front	back	Face value	colour	Front motif	Motif on the back
		50 dram	Purple, blue, gray	Aram Khachaturian	A scene from the ballet Gayaneh, which he composed, and Mount Ararat
		100 dram	Blue, gray	Viktor Hambarzumjan	Byurakan Observatory
		500 dram	Gray	Alexander Tamanyan	Government building designed by him in Yerevan
		1000 dram	Green, purple	Yeghic charity	Image of the former Yerevan
		5000 dram	Yellow-green	Hovhannes Tumanjan	Landscape by Lori from a painting by Martiros Sarjan
		10,000 dram	pink	Avetik Isahakjan	Image of Gyumri at the beginning of the 20th century
		20,000 dram	Yellow, red, brown	Martiros Sarjan	Fragment of the landscape drawing Armenia by Martiros Sarjan
		50,000 dram	Brown, red	Etchmiadzin Cathedral	Gregory the Illuminator and King Trdat the Great with Mount Ararat in the background, on the right is a khachkar from the monastery of Kecharis .
		100,000 dram	Blue brown	Abgar V.	St. Thaddäus and Abgar V. of Edessa

Third series (since 2018)

In 2018, new banknotes were released to mark the 25th anniversary of the Dram as the national Armenian currency.

front	back	Face value	colour	Front motif	Motif on the back
		500 dram	Brown, gray	Noah's Ark and Echmiadzin Cathedral against the backdrop of Mount Ararat	Noah , his family and animals against the backdrop of Mount Ararat
		1000 dram	violet	Poet Paroujr Sewak	Paroujr Sewak house (museum) in Sangakatun ( Ararat province ), Sewak statue
		2000 dram	brown	Chess world champion Tigran Petrosyan , chessboard	Tigran Petrosian Chess House ( Yerevan ), Petrosian statue
		5000 dram	red	Writer William Saroyan , book cover of his books, A Mountain	Saroyan statue in Yerevan
		10,000 dram	purple	Komitas Vardapet , founder of modern classical music in Armenia	Gevorkian seminary and Komitas statue in Vagharschapat (Etschmiadzin)
		20,000 dram	blue	Painter Iwan Konstantinowitsch Aivazovsky	Art Museum and Aivazovsky statue in Feodosia (Crimea)
		50,000 dram	gold	Gregory the Illuminator , manuscripts on the life of Saint Gregory and the cathedral of Etchmiadzin	Khor Virap Monastery (Chapel of Gregory the Illuminator), Ararat plain, tombstone of Saint Gregory (Etchmiadzin), statue of Saint Gregory

Web links

Commons : Armenian Dram  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Currency symbol  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Central Bank of Armenia
• Conversion table AMD-EUR with current exchange rates