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3 Apsars Allosaurus Fragilis
| Issuer | Bank of Abkhazia (Аҧсны Абанк) |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a large stylized silhouette of an Allosaurus head dominating the upper field, rendered in a bold graphic style with open jaws displaying prominent teeth. In the lower and left portions of the field, skeletal outlines of various dinosaurs — including a sauropod skeleton and a stegosaurid — are depicted against a background suggestive of fossil-bearing rock strata, alongside hatched egg-like forms. To the upper right, the coat of arms of Abkhazia appears within a shield, accompanied by the Cyrillic legends '3 ПСАРК' (denomination), 'АПСНЫ АБАНК' (Bank of Abkhazia), and the date '2021' inscribed to the right. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic (cursive), Latin |
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Abkhazia's apsar coinage is issued by a central bank belonging to a state recognized by fewer than a dozen UN members — Russia chief among them following the 2008 war with Georgia. These coins are legal tender in name but function almost entirely as collector pieces, with no meaningful circulation economy to absorb them. The Allosaurus fragilis itself lived some 150 million years ago across what is now the Morrison Formation of the American West, making the geographic connection to the issuer purely nominal.