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20 Lari
| Issuer | National Bank of Georgia |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette bears a portrait of Ilia Chavchavadze (1837–1907), the celebrated Georgian writer, poet, and public figure, accompanied by an inscription bearing his name and life dates. The composition integrates vignettes referencing the literary journals Sakartvelos Moambe and Iveria, both founded by Chavchavadze, alongside representations of his personal effects, set against a guilloché underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | ილია ჭავჭავაძე 1837 - 1907 |
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Georgia's 1999 banknote series, of which this is part, was produced as the country worked to stabilize the lari following its introduction in 1995 — itself a replacement for the short-lived kupon lari, which had collapsed under hyperinflation reaching tens of thousands of percent annually in the early post-Soviet years. The lari's introduction was a deliberate break from that chaos, backed by IMF support and a currency board-style discipline that the kupon had never had.
Giesecke & Devrient handled production of the early lari series, a common choice for post-Soviet states building credible note programs from scratch.