Catalog
50 Lari
| Issuer | National Bank of Georgia |
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| Year | 2004-2013 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | საქართველო საქართველოს ეროვნული ბანკი ორმოცდაათი ლარი 2004 |
| Reverse description | Central vignette drawn from medieval Georgian manuscript art, presenting a composite mythological creature — a winged lion or simurgh — upon whose back a mounted archer in classical attire draws a bow, rendered in an orange-brown line-art style against a pale guilloche background. The left portion of the note carries a latent-image '50' numeral in blue at the lower left, with fine geometric underprint patterns in lilac and teal extending across the field. The English inscription 'Georgia. Fifty Lari' runs vertically along the centre-left, with the denomination '50' repeated in large numerals at the lower right and Georgian script along the right vertical border. |
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Georgia's third series of lari notes, introduced from 1999 onward, was designed following the currency's rocky debut after the catastrophic hyperinflation that destroyed the coupon — the transitional currency the country used after independence before the lari was introduced in 1995. The 50 lari sat at the upper-middle denomination of everyday commerce and saw heavy use across the series' long print run.
Pick 73 was eventually succeeded by a redesigned issue with enhanced security, the older notes demonetized on a rolling schedule as the National Bank progressively tightened counterfeit resistance. The security thread on this emission is a basic windowed type — notably modest by the standards of contemporary regional issues from Turkey or Russia.