With the breakup of the Soviet Union, one of the nations to arise from this disintegration is Georgia. For the first several years the newly independent country managed to avoid conflicts with its neighbors but the increasing Westernization of Georgian society and government angered certain adjoining countries, especially Russia under Vladimir Putin.
In 2008, given the usual trumped-up reasons, Russia invaded Georgia and seized the northern part of the country. Since that time there has been an uneasy truce, with the illegal occupation by Putin’s brutal military an ever-present fact of life.
Georgia has a long history of coinage, extending back nearly 25 centuries. In the fourth century B.C. Greek colonists struck the first coins but it was not until about 1000 years ago that Georgia became a nation in the true…
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World Coin News (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024