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The earliest monograph on Georgian coins containing new information on the Bagration kings and Queen Tamara, for which the author was elected to the French academy.
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BARATAEV, M.P. Numizmaticheskie fakty Gruzinskogo tsarstvo [Numismatic Facts of the Kingdom of Georgia]. St. Petersburg, 1844. 4 parts in 1 vol., 4to, contemporary half morocco, spine worn; some leaves slightly spotted. Lithograph title and 14 plates on India paper, last 3 pages of errata, text in French, Georgian and Russian.