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Description: GEORGIA. Giorgi III. 1156-1184. CU Fals (24mm, 5.41 g, 3h). Dated 394 of Orthodox Paschal Cycle (AD 1174). Giorgi seated facing crosslegged, wearing crown with pendilia and cross, and cuirass, holding falcon standing right with head left, other hand on knee; [to left. 394 of Paschal cycle in ecclesiastical characters]; to right, GI monogram in Georgian characters above monograms in ecclesiastical characters / “King of Kings, Giorgi, son of Dimitri, Sword of the Messiah,” in Arabic in three lines across field. Kapanadze 57; Lang 9. VF, brown patina, minor adjustment marks. Very rare.
Title: Giorgi III coin
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