Georgia - kingdom of Georgia and region - lot Falls and others 12th century and later Georgia lot 10 medieval coins copper fals Bagratid 12th and 13th century Caucasus Arabic and Georgian inscriptions

Georgia and the region, lot of 10 different medieval coins. With copper fals and one large flat bronze piece. Some show star or flower like motifs.

One is countermarked.

Weight of the coins between about 1.71 grams and 5.39 grams.

Further research needed.

The fals is the copper coin of the Islamic world, and in medieval Georgia it was the ordinary circulating money. The kingdom of Georgia was at its height from the eleventh into the early thirteenth century. The Bagratids were Christian kings, yet on their money they freely used the Islamic coin types and Arabic inscriptions that were current across the whole region, alongside Georgian letters. Silver was scarce, so the monetary system leaned heavily on copper small change. Under Giorgi the Third, who reigned from 1156 to 1184, there is a fals showing the king seated cross legged holding a falcon, with Georgian letters beside him. Queen Tamar, from 1184 to 1213, had copper fals struck on irregular flans, with the dynastic emblem of the Bagratids and the initials of herself and of her second husband David Soslan, an Ossetian prince. In Arabic her coins carry her name with the Christian title zahir al-masih, champion of the messiah. Coins of this kind were struck on irregular flans.

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