Issued under Vakhtang VI, who ruled Kartli as a Persian vassal before his catastrophic gamble of aligning with Peter the Great during the Russo-Persian War of 1722. The bisti denominations he struck in this brief window were among the last coins produced by an independent Georgian royal mint before the kingdom's political collapse forced Vakhtang into permanent Russian exile in 1724, where he died in Astrakhan eleven years later.
Issued under Vakhtang VI, who ruled Kartli as a Persian vassal before his catastrophic gamble of aligning with Peter the Great during the Russo-Persian War of 1722. The bisti denominations he struck in this brief window were among the last coins produced by an independent Georgian royal mint before the kingdom's political collapse forced Vakhtang into permanent Russian exile in 1724, where he died in Astrakhan eleven years later.