Catalog
| Issuer | Kingdom of Georgia |
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| Year | 1136-1152 |
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| Diameter | 19.5 mm |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain (irregularly hammered) |
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| Additional information |
Demetrius I came to the Georgian throne in 1125 following the death of David the Builder, inheriting both an expanded kingdom and a complex monetary system that had absorbed Byzantine, Seljuk, and local traditions simultaneously. The irregular copper issues attributed to his reign are poorly understood precisely because Georgia at this period had no fixed mint infrastructure in the modern sense — production was episodic, tied to administrative need rather than a centralized monetary policy.
Type 4 within this series is distinguished primarily by die characteristics rather than design consistency, and attribution remains contested among specialists working from Georgian and Armenian chronicle sources.