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200 Roubles Novaya Zemlya
| Issuer | Russia › Russian Federation (1991-date) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 200 Roubles 200 RUB = USD 2.68 |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | Central motif depicts a narwhal (Monodon monoceros) in profile, its distinctive elongated tusk extending to the right, shown breaching at the water surface with stylised concentric ripple lines radiating outward. In the upper field, a panoramic arctic landscape with mountains appears above the waterline. The scientific name 'Monodon monoceros' is inscribed in Latin script to the right of the animal. The arc legend НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ПАРК "РУССКАЯ АРКТИКА" (National Park "Russian Arctic") curves along the upper edge, while the date 2021 and denomination 200 / РУБЛЕЙ appear in the lower field. |
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Novaya Zemlya's monetary history is unusual even by the standards of Soviet-era scrip. The archipelago served as a closed nuclear test site from 1955, and the indigenous Nenets population was forcibly relocated to the mainland in 1957 to clear the area for weapons testing — a displacement that was never reversed. The local currency tokens issued there during the Soviet period were instruments of a captive economy, redeemable only within the settlement and worthless outside it.
This 2021 commemorative revisits that history without quite confronting it.