Georgia 1993 2 tetri
Georgia, a country in the Caucasus mountains, had enjoyed a long period of independence before being gradually conquered by the Tsars of Russia in the nineteenth century. She declared independence again in the aftermath of World War One, a situation that was unacceptable to her most famous native son, Josef Stalin, and Georgia was reconquered in 1921. After the collapse of communism, Georgia once again declared independence in 1991 but immediately encountered her own difficulties with internal minorities, the Abkhazi and the Ossetians. The resulting civil war destroyed the value of the kuponi, originally equal to the ruble, and it was replaced with the lari in 1995. The tetri was originally 1/100 of the kuponi and the 1993 series of coins shown here are now likely unusable. The reverse of this coin depicts a stylized peacock. The reverse legend “თეთრი” = tetri.
Recorded mintage: unknown but common.
Specification: 1.85 g, nickel plated steel, 17.4 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM 77.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
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