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25 Apsars Leon II
| Issuer | Bank of Abkhazia |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Abkhazian (Cyrillic-based) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Leon II ruled Abkhazia in the late eighth and early ninth centuries and is credited with breaking the kingdom's ecclesiastical dependence on Constantinople, shifting the church's allegiance to Antioch — a rare instance of a small Caucasian polity deliberately engineering its own religious autonomy as a geopolitical move. The Bank of Abkhazia has issued numismatic series drawing on medieval Abkhazian royal history partly as a sovereignty claim in material form, given that the territory's political status remains unresolved under international law, recognized as an independent state by only a handful of UN members.