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20 Apsars Ubykh prince
| Issuer | National Bank of Abkhazia |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Weight | 155.5 g |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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The Ubykh were a Northwest Caucasian people whose language — considered among the most phonologically complex ever documented, with over 80 consonants — died with its last native speaker, Tevfik Esenç, in France in 1992. Their mass exile followed the Russo-Circassian War; by 1864, nearly the entire Ubykh population had been expelled to Ottoman territory, effectively erasing the culture from its homeland along the Black Sea coast — land that is now coastal Abkhazia and the Sochi region.
This issue is part of a broader NBRA series commemorating peoples and historical figures tied to the Caucasus, struck in five-ounce format by an outside mint on behalf of a state recognized by only a handful of UN members.