KAREN KOMENDARYAN CONDUCTED A LECTURE AT ASUE
Today, the author of the symbol of Armenian Dram Karen Komendaryan conducted a lecture on “Currency signs” at ASUE Conference Hall.
The meeting was organized by support of ASUE Foreign Relations Division and it was attended by students. The speaker presented the currency signs (dollar, Euro, peso, etc), then their history and analysis, analyzed in detail the history and creation of Armenian Dram. It’s so interesting, when he mentioned that Dram means the voice caused by the tinkle of coins. He referred to Armenian alphabet, significance of the letters.
He assured that Armenian letters are unique and have a great advice in them. The image of “Դ” letter and two horizontal signs are the based characters of the AMD.
The speaker checked the students’ knowledge by questions, and at the end of the meeting he awarded a souvenir to the most active student Armine Poghosyan.
In the interview with ASUE Media and Public Relations Division the 3rd year student of the Department of Marketing and Business Management Shushanik Mkrtchyan mentioned that the presented topic interested students, after lectures they would like to study additional topics.
Note, that the RA CB has announced a competition of the symbol of AMD, and in the result of it, the graphical image authored by Karen Komendaryan became the symbol of AMD.
September 7, 1995 is the day of creating AMD symbol.
The currency of the newly independent Republic of Armenia was put into circulation on November 22, 1993.
ASUE Media and Public Relations Division
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