Catalog
2 Lari
| Issuer | National Bank of Georgia |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Size | 115 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing portrait vignette of Georgian composer Zakaria Paliashvili set against a guilloche underprint, with a musical excerpt from his opera 'Abesalom and Eteri' printed in the central field. The borjghali sun symbol appears at the left, serial numbers are positioned at the upper right and lower left corners, and the denomination numeral with Georgian script inscription is at the right. Facsimile signatures of the Minister of Finance and the President of the National Bank appear at the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of the Tbilisi Zakaria Paliashvili State Opera and Ballet Theatre, rendered in fine line engraving with a horse-drawn carriage in the foreground. Large numeral '2' appears at both left and right edges against a multicolour guilloche underprint in warm orange and red tones, with the Georgian script denomination vertical at the left margin. A concentric-circle latent image security element is printed in the lower left corner. |
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Georgia's first post-Soviet banknote series, introduced in 1995, replaced the short-lived coupon currency (the kuponi) that had circulated since 1993 under catastrophic inflation. The lari redenomination was set at one lari to one million kuponi — a ratio that tells you everything about the preceding three years.
Oberthur Fiduciaire produced the series in France at a time when the Georgian state had almost no domestic printing infrastructure. The 2 Lari is among the lower denominations and saw heavy everyday use; worn examples significantly outnumber clean ones in the market.