Interesting. The writing on the coin is Asomtavruli, the oldest script in Georgia, used by the Georgian Orthodox Church in ceremonial religious texts and iconography.
were the coin blanks cast or cut? i wonder if this was something like a puddle or overpour that was used as a piece of scrap metal for testing stamps or as some sort of annealing or tempering test/reference piece for a whole batch of metal.
Is there a story behind this?
Someone had a little too much to drink at the ol’ coin factory.
Unfortunately, I don’t know anything more about it. I just stumbled across this piece by accident on wiki. Weird little thing.
Clearly someone was a visionary, born too early, without the means for their ideas to come to fruition
Honestly it kinda looks like a gorilla
