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1 Apsar Pitsunda
| Issuer | Bank of Abkhazia |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The plastic centre presents a full-colour aerial photographic view of the Pitsunda cape on the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia, depicting the distinctive curved sandy beach, green forested headland, and the prominent Soviet-era hotel complex rising amid the tree canopy. The place name 'Пицунда' (Pitsunda) is inscribed in Cyrillic lettering within a light-coloured panel at the lower portion of the central insert. The surrounding milled aluminium ring carries the same continuous repeating legend '1 ПСАРК' separated by dot stops as found on the obverse. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 ҦСАРК Пиҵунда (Translation: 1 Apsar Pitsunda) |
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Abkhazia's bimetallic plastic-core coinage occupies a peculiar corner of numismatics — issued by a central bank of a state recognized by only a handful of UN members, these pieces circulate domestically while remaining largely invisible to international markets. The Bank of Abkhazia has produced collector and circulation issues in this format since the early 2000s, operating independently of Georgian monetary authority following the 1992–93 war and subsequent de facto separation.
The plastic centre construction is not experimental novelty — it is a cost-driven solution common to low-denomination issues in small economies with limited mint infrastructure.