Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Roubles Fukushima nuclear disaster; Trial Strike
| Issuer | Spitsbergen (Norway) |
|---|---|
| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A detailed scene depicting the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster occupies the central field, showing the damaged reactor buildings with structural debris in the foreground, a helicopter in flight above the site, and a prominent radiation warning sign (trefoil symbol on triangular placard) to the right. The curved legend 'АВАРИЯ НА АЭС ФУКУСИМА' (Accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant) arcs along the upper periphery. Below the central scene, the inscription 'ИЮЛЬ' (July) appears above the date '2011' in the lower exergue. The composition is rendered in high relief against a proof-like mirror field. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 2011 СПМД - Proof; St. Petersburg Mint |
| Additional information |
Spitsbergen's so-called "local currency" issues have long occupied an awkward position between novelty and numismatic legitimacy. The Arctic Coal Company — operating under the Russian name Arktikugol — produced rouble-denominated tokens for use at Barentsburg, the Soviet and later Russian mining settlement on Svalbard, where Norwegian sovereignty and a demilitarization treaty created a peculiar administrative enclave. That arrangement gave issuers just enough political ambiguity to market commemorative pieces to collectors worldwide.
This trial strike, commemorating the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and resulting Fukushima Daiichi disaster, was produced within months of the event itself — a turnaround typical of this issuer's opportunistic commemorative program rather than any institutional connection to the disaster.