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10 Apsars The Dormition Cathedral of Dranda
| Issuer | Bank of Abkhazia |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Thickness | 3.3 mm |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Abkhazia's coinage occupies a peculiar legal grey zone — the territory declared independence from Georgia in 1999, a status recognized by fewer than a handful of UN member states. The Bank of Abkhazia issues collector pieces denominated in Apsars, a currency with no meaningful circulation, effectively functioning as a sovereign assertion in metal rather than a monetary instrument.
The Dranda Cathedral, dating to the 6th century Byzantine period, survived the devastating 1992–1993 Georgian-Abkhaz war and was returned to Orthodox monastic use in the 1990s after decades of Soviet repurposing as a psychiatric hospital.