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1 Kopek Spitsbergen
| Uitgever | Gosudarstvennyy trest Arktikugol (State Trust Arktikugol) |
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| Jaar | 1957 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Brown and ochre talón coupon on plain paper, with the issuing authority — USSR Ministry of the Coal Industry and State Trust Arktikugol — inscribed in Cyrillic across the top. A central guilloche rosette forms the underprint, flanked on each side by large bold numeral '1' denomination figures. A red serial number runs across the centre, with the value stated in full as ОДНА КОПЕЙКА below, and a disclaimer line in small letterpress text at the foot. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | 1957 |
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| Opmerkingen |
Arktikugol — the Soviet state trust that operated the coal mines on Svalbard — issued its own scrip currency for use within the Norwegian archipelago because ordinary Soviet rubles could not legally circulate there. The 1920 Svalbard Treaty granted Norway sovereignty while guaranteeing other signatory nations the right to conduct commercial activity, leaving Soviet workers in a jurisdictional grey zone that necessitated a closed monetary system entirely internal to the mining settlements of Barentsburg and Pyramiden.
The 1957 series replaced an earlier issue and remained in use through the Cold War decades, redeemable only at company stores. Kopek denominations this small had almost no practical purchasing power even at 1957 Soviet prices — their existence in the series is more administrative than functional.