Catalog
10 Apsars V.G. Ardzynba
| Issuer | Bank of Abkhazia |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Currency | Apsar |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central effigy presents a facing three-quarter portrait bust of Vladislav Grigoryevich Ardzinba, first President and Head of the Republic of Abkhazia, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. To the upper left, a waving flag of Abkhazia is depicted in low relief. The arc legend 'АПСНЫ АХАДА' (The Head of Apsny) with the date range '1991–2005' curves along the upper rim, denoting his years of leadership. The name 'АРЗЫНБА В.Г.' is inscribed in bold Cyrillic characters along the lower portion of the field. |
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Vladislav Grigoryevich Ardzinba led Abkhazia through its brutal 1992–93 war with Georgia and became the republic's first head of state — the figure around whom the separatist government's entire institutional identity was built. The Apsar series, launched by the Bank of Abkhazia in the mid-2000s, was itself a political act: issuing collectible coinage in a currency with no international recognition, for a territory recognized by virtually no one.
Ardzinba died in March 2010, roughly two years after this coin was struck.