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5 Lari
| Issuer | National Bank of Georgia |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | საქართველოს რესპუბლიკა საქართველოს ეროვნული ბანკი 1995 ივანე ჯავახიშვილი 1876-1940 5 ხუთი ლარი (Translation: Republic of Georgia, National Bank of Georgia. Ivane Javakhishvili 1876-1940, Five lari) |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents an architectural vignette of Tbilisi State University at right centre, rendered in fine engraved detail, accompanied by a cartographic representation of Georgia to the left. A sculptural lion figure appears adjacent to the university vignette, with the denomination expressed in both Georgian script and English framing the composition alongside bilingual institutional inscriptions. |
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Georgia's first post-Soviet banknote series, introduced in 1995, replaced the short-lived coupon currency — the lari itself had been a unit of account in medieval Georgian kingdoms, a deliberate historical reference embedded in the naming decision rather than the design. Oberthur Fiduciaire handled the contract, as they did for several newly independent states navigating the logistical reality of having no domestic printing capacity whatsoever.
Security on this issue is minimal by later standards — watermark only, no security thread. The National Bank moved to more robustly secured issues within a few years.