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25 Zarin Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Tigua
| Issuer | National Bank of South Ossetia |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the coat of arms of the Republic of South Ossetia depicted within a beaded inner circle, showing a snow leopard passant before stylised mountain peaks. The denomination '25 ЗÆРИНЫ' is inscribed in large Cyrillic characters along the upper arc of the mirror-polished field, while 'НАЦИОНАЛОН БАНК' (National Bank) appears along the lower arc. The bilingual country name — 'РЕСПУБЛИКÆ ХУССАР ИРЫСТОН' in Ossetic and 'РЕСПУБЛИКА ЮЖНАЯ ОСЕТИЯ' in Russian — surrounds the central emblem within the beaded circle. The year '2017', mint mark 'ММД', and fineness notation 'Ag925 31,1' appear in the lower field. An ornamental chain of rosette motifs frames the outer border. |
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| Mintage | 2017 ММД - Prooflike |
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South Ossetia has no internationally recognized monetary system of its own — it operates almost entirely on the Russian ruble and has no functioning central bank in any conventional sense. The "National Bank of South Ossetia" issues these coins as collector pieces with no domestic circulation, targeting the numismatic market rather than serving any transactional purpose. The Tigua church depicted here is a medieval Georgian Orthodox structure in the Leningor district, a region that remained under Georgian administrative control for years after the 2008 war before South Ossetian forces consolidated authority over it in 2015.