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25 Zarin Anders Johan Sjögren
| Issuer | National Bank of South Ossetia |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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South Ossetia has no internationally recognized central bank in any functional sense — the territory operates almost entirely on the Russian ruble under a subsidy-dependent economy, and its "National Bank" issues no currency accepted anywhere. These silver pieces are produced for the collector market under the issuing authority's name, a practice common among partially recognized or unrecognized states seeking seigniorage revenue from numismatic sales.
Anders Johan Sjögren was a 19th-century Finnish-Swedish linguist and ethnographer who conducted fieldwork across the Caucasus in the 1840s, documenting Ossetian language and culture at a time when very few Western scholars had any access to the region.