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25 Zarin Vasily Abaev
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of South Ossetia |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the colorized coat of arms of South Ossetia, depicting a snow leopard passant above a stylized golden landscape, set against a red sun rising behind snow-capped mountains, all within a dotted inner border. The legend РЕСПУБЛИКӔ ХУССАР ИРЫСТОН / РЕСПУБЛИКА ЮЖНАЯ ОСЕТИЯ arcs around the central emblem in Cyrillic script. The denomination 25 ЗÆРИНЫ is inscribed prominently at the top of the coin in large Cyrillic lettering, while НАЦИОНАЛОН БАНК appears in large Cyrillic characters across the lower portion of the field. The mint mark СПМД, year 2015, and fineness details Ag 925 33.63 are situated in the lower exergual area. The outer border is decorated with a repeating ornamental rosette pattern. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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South Ossetia has no internationally recognized central bank in any functional sense — the territory operates almost entirely on Russian rubles under Russian financial administration, and the "National Bank of the Republic of South Ossetia" exists largely as a issuing authority for numismatic pieces rather than a monetary institution. Vasily Abaev (1900–2001) was a Soviet-era Iranian studies scholar and linguist, the foremost authority on Ossetic language and Scythian-Alanic linguistic heritage, who lived to 101 and published into his nineties.
The coin's existence is political as much as commemorative — these issues collectively assert sovereign identity through numismatic form for a state recognized only by Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Syria, and Nauru.