Strangely shaped coin of King George IV of Georgia, 1210 AD

Interesting. The writing on the coin is Asomtavruli, the oldest script in Georgia, used by the Georgian Orthodox Church in ceremonial religious texts and iconography.

were the coin blanks cast or cut? i wonder if this was something like a puddle or overpour that was used as a piece of scrap metal for testing stamps or as some sort of annealing or tempering test/reference piece for a whole batch of metal.

Is there a story behind this?

Clearly someone was a visionary, born too early, without the means for their ideas to come to fruition

Honestly it kinda looks like a gorilla