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10 Apsars Taif Adzhba
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Abkhazia |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 10 Apsars |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a portrait of the Abkhazian poet and public figure Taif Ajba positioned on the left side of the field. To the right of the portrait, lines of poetry in the Abkhaz language are inscribed in Cyrillic script. Autumnal leaves are depicted alongside the text, rendered in polychrome color using pad printing technique, lending a decorative and commemorative character to the design. |
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Abkhazia's coinage occupies a legally ambiguous position: the territory operates the National Bank and issues currency, but is recognized as an independent state by only a handful of UN members — Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Syria, and Nauru among them. Georgian law considers these issues null. That friction is precisely what makes Abkhazian numismatic output interesting to specialists; these are functioning monetary instruments of a state most of the world refuses to acknowledge.
Taif Adzhba was a celebrated Abkhazian folk musician, and this issue is part of a broader NBRA cultural series documenting figures central to Abkhaz national identity — a pattern of coin production that functions as much as political assertion as commemorative purpose.