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10 Chervontsev 70th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad
| Issuer | Arktikugol Trust (Spitsbergen, Norway) |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Chervonets |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Edge | Segmented reeding |
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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.