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Armenia paper money catalog and Armenian currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Russian currency till 1919
  • Ruble = 100 Kopeks, 1919-1924
  • Russian currency, 1924-1993
  • Dram = (200 Russian Rubles) = 100 Luma, from 1993

• For Russian occupation issues see:
  • Russia
    • Imperial Russia, 1826-1918
    • Transcaucasia, 1922-1924
    • Soviet Union, 1924-1990
• For Nagorno Karabakh predominantly Armenian region seceded from Azerbaijan see:
  • Nagorno Karabakh, from 1994

• To purchase Armenian banknotes, please check our inventory :
  [ World Banknotes (part 1): countries A-F ] - [ World Banknotes (part 2): countries G-M ] - [ World Banknotes (part 3): countries N-Z ]

Pick #	Date
		Republic (after collapse of Czarist Russia)
1-8	1919	5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1.000 rubles
9-13	1919	50, 100, 250, 500, 1.000 rubles
14-18	1919	5, 10, 25, 50, 100 rubles
19-29	1919/1920	25, 25, 50, 100, 250, 250, 250, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000 rubles
30-32	1919	50, 100, 250 rubles
		Republic (after collapse of Soviet Union)
33-40	1993-95	10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1.000, 5.000 drams
41-47	1998-9	50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 20.000 drams
48	2001	50.000 drams; commemorative issue "17000 years of Christianity in Armenia"
50-	2001-	1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 100.000 drams