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Regular copper - David IV
| Issuer | Georgia, Kingdom of (1010-1490) |
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| Year | 1089-1125 |
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| Weight | 10.8 g |
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| Obverse lettering | (Translation: King David) |
| Reverse description | A bold equal-armed cross occupies the central field, set within a plain inner circle. The cross features slightly flared terminals and is rendered in high relief against a flat field. Surrounding the inner circle, a continuous circular legend in Georgian Nuskhuri script fills the outer border, proclaiming the king's titles and domains. |
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David IV — "the Builder" — inherited a fractured kingdom under Seljuk occupation and spent his reign systematically reversing it, culminating in the recapture of Tbilisi in 1122 after four centuries of Arab and then Turkic control. The copper coinage of his reign reflects an administration suddenly in need of a functioning monetary infrastructure for a capital city it had only just recovered.
Georgian copper of this period is notoriously irregular in flan preparation, and David's issues are no exception — weight variation across surviving specimens can be substantial even within ostensibly the same emission.