Kingdom of Iberia (Caucasus) - 400 BC - 580 AD.
**Type: **Coins of Bagadat, son of Biurat. I type
Description, picture:
Silver. Weights – 16,58 gr.
**Obverse: **Head of Bagadat r., bearded, with moustache, and taenia on forehead; wears satrapal head-dress (kyrbasia) with double tie behind, and flaps fastened over top; earring in ear; border of dots.
**Reverse: **Bagadat seated l. on throne with back; wears kyrbasia; long overgarment with false sleeves and arm-guards; holds in r. a long sceptre, in l. a flower (?); planted before him, standard with decoration and hanging tassels – dirēfš-i Kaviān; Aramaic inscr. on r. downwards and on l. upwards, border of dots.
**Mint: **Unknown (Phasis (?), Trapezus (?)).
**Nominal: **Tetradrachm.
**Date: **Second half of the 3rd c. B.C.
**Collection: **This sample is preserved in the British Museum (№1854,0405.19).
This is amalgam from Armenian Primary History. Using other more detailed accounts, it can be formulated like this: in the early years of the 3rd c. B.C. the northern and southern kingdoms of Kartli (Iberia, East and South Georgia) were united under Pharnavaz from the city of Mtskheta (northern kingdom), the first king of the Pharnavazid dynasty. Azo, the southern sovereign, seems to be killed in skirmish. Pharnavaz, now victorious, gratefully adopted his sons and kept them within the native domains as the dukes (residing somewhere in Klarjeti (now in Turkey) and possessing some more appanages in Speri (Ispir district)). Bagrat (Bagadat) Pharnavaziani, Bivrat (Biurat) and Sumbat (Smbat) – these are the names of the first men from Bagrationi ruling clan. Sumbat revolted against Mtskheta overlordship, supported by Artaxias, the Armenian king; and thus Vitaxate of Gogarene (southern parts of Georgia) had emerged.