Currency in the South Caucasus

Abstract

Transcaucasia is a cross-road of all the communication routes between East and West, but also between North and South. For some years a cooperative program aimed to inventory coin finds in Georgia and Armenia. The result was an important series of publications that give a complete view of coin finds in that region. The hoards record the main historical problems, from the fights between Greeks and Persians to those between Russia and the Ottomans. The most important period for hoarding was of course the Mongol invasions and the Ilkhanid wars.