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10 Chervontsev 70th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad
| Issuer | Arktikugol Trust (Spitsbergen, Norway) |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | The State Coat of Arms of the USSR occupies the central field, depicting a hammer and sickle superimposed on a globe, surrounded by wheat sheaves bound with ribbons bearing the motto of the Union republics, surmounted by a five-pointed star. The circular legend along the upper rim reads 'ОСТРОВ ШПИЦБЕРГЕН АРКТИКУГОЛЬ 2013' in Cyrillic. The denomination '10' appears in the lower field below the arms, with the currency designation '* ЧЕРВОНЦЕВ *' flanked by stars along the bottom rim. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Arktikugol Trust — the Soviet-era coal-mining enterprise still operating on the Svalbard archipelago under Norwegian sovereignty — has issued commemorative token coinage for decades, exploiting a quirk of the 1920 Spitsbergen Treaty that permits Russian commercial presence on the islands. These pieces circulate, nominally, within the company settlement of Barentsburg, giving them a technical claim to being legal tender that most numismatists treat skeptically.
The 70th anniversary of Stalingrad fell in February 2013, marking the German surrender of 2 February 1943 — the engagement that cost roughly two million casualties on both sides and effectively ended German offensive capability on the Eastern Front.