FAUNA ON BANKNOTES - EUROPE:
Armenia
Armenia pick 31: 100 Rubles from 1919
1919 (1920). Green on orange and yellow underprint. Landscape with mountains. Back: Eagle at center. Printer: W&S.
Collectors Comment: rev.: eagle, peafowls (below)
Armenia pick 34a: 25 Dram from 1993
1993. Brown and light red on multicolored underprint. Frieze with lion from Erebuni Castle at center right, cuneiform tablet at upper left center. Arched ornament at upper center right on back.
Collectors Comment: obv.: lion
Armenia pick 59: 1000 Dram from 2015
2015. Green and rose. Portrait of writer Yeghishe Charents. Holographic strip at left. Back: Old Yerevan scene including a two storied building and a horse drawn carriage.
Collectors Comment: rev.: horses
Armenia pick 60a: 500 Dram from 2017
2017. Red and orange on multicolored underprint. Front of this banknote features the reliquary with a fragment of Noah's Ark; the background features a fragment of the "View of Ararat and the Monastery of Etchmiadzin" woodcut. The back of the note features an image of the "Leaving of the Ark" woodcut by J. Carolsfeld; Mount Ararat is in the background. As a banknote without folder.
Collectors Comment: rev.: goat, dogs, hedgehog, domestic birds, heron, owl, rabbit (left side); fox, lion, cheetah, bison, bear, horse, camel, eagle (right side)
Armenia pick 62: 2000 Dram from 2018
2018. Dark brown on peach underprint. Portrait of Tigran Petrosian against the background of the fragments of the 9th World Chess Champion’s winning games and the scene of a kings coronation on the front of the banknote. The back of this banknote features a monument to Tigran Petrosian in Yerevan and the Chess House against the background of the city of Yerevan on the back.
Collectors Comment: obv.: horse