View source for Georgia 1993 50 tetri

[[Image:Georgia 1993 50 tetri obv DSLR.jpg|300px|thumb|from the Mountain Groan Collection]]
[[Image:Georgia 1993 50 tetri rev DSLR.jpg|300px|thumb]]

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, per Wikipedia, depicts a relief of a griffin from the eastern façade of the 11th century Samtavisi Cathedral. The reverse legend “თეთრი” = tetri.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown but common.

''Specification:'' 2.45 g, brass, 19 mm diameter.

''Catalog reference:'' KM 81.

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

''Link to:''
* [[Georgia 1993 tetri]]
* [[Georgia 1993 2 tetri]]
* [[Georgia 1993 5 tetri]]
* [[Georgia 1993 10 tetri]]
* [[Georgia 1993 20 tetri]]
* [[Georgia 2006 50 tetri|2006 50 tetri]]
* [[Georgia 2006 lari|2006 lari]]
* [[Georgia 2006 2 lari KM-94|2006 2 lari, bimetallic]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1993]]
* return to coins of [[Georgia]]

[[Category:Selections from the Mountain Groan Collection]]