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10 Chervontsev I. V. Stalin
| Issuer | Arktikugol Trust, Spitsbergen (Norway) |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the State Coat of Arms of the USSR, depicting a hammer and sickle superimposed on a globe, surmounted by a five-pointed star, and flanked by wheat sheaves bound with ribbons inscribed with the Soviet motto in multiple languages. The denomination '10' appears in the lower field, with the Cyrillic legend 'ЧЕРВОНЦЕВ' below. The circular legend 'ОСТРОВ ШПИЦБЕРГЕН АРКТИКУГОЛЬ' runs along the left and upper periphery, with the date '2013' to the right, flanked by two small five-pointed stars. |
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| Reverse lettering | И.В.СТАЛИН ПЕРВЫЙ ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ СОВЕТА МИНИСТРОВ СССР * |
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Arktikugol — the Soviet-era coal-mining trust that has operated Barentsburg on Svalbard since the 1930s — issues these tokens as a kind of sovereign gesture, exploiting the 1920 Svalbard Treaty's provisions that grant Russian nationals the right to conduct commercial activity on Norwegian-administered territory. The trust runs its own internal scrip economy at Barentsburg, and these pieces circulate among the settlement's workers as functional currency within the compound.
Issuing a Stalin portrait piece in 2013 was a deliberate political statement, timed to the dictator's rehabilitation in certain Russian official circles under Putin-era nationalism.