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| Issuer | Kaliningradsky Monetno-Zhetony Dvor (Kaliningrad Coin and Token Mint) |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ИСТОРИЯ ВОСТОЧНОЙ ПРУССИИ GERDAUEN 1889 ЖЕЛЕЗНОДОРОЖНЫЙ 1946 |
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| Mintage | 2014 СВ - Aged patina - 700 2014 СВ - Prooflike - 300 |
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The Kaliningrad Coin and Token Mint operates as a private commercial issuer rather than a state authority, producing fantasy pieces, tokens, and local trade currency for regional circulation in the Kaliningrad exclave — Russia's isolated Baltic territory, physically separated from the mainland by Lithuania and Belarus. The "Thaler" denomination is an entirely invented unit with no monetary authority behind it, a self-conscious nod to the Germanic monetary history of what was, until 1945, the Prussian city of Königsberg.
Königsberg was the city where Kant spent his entire life and where German thalers circulated for centuries before Soviet annexation erased the administrative infrastructure entirely.