Spitsbergen coinage

Discussion in 'World Coins' started by gxseries, Aug 27, 2013.

  1. gxseries

    gxseries Coin Collector

    Spitsbergen coinage is interesting - it's issued for a Russian coal mining town off an island that belongs to Norway. All coins were issued in Russia in 1946, 1993 and 1998. I'm missing just three coins.

    My collection can be found here:

    http://gxseries.com/numis/spitsbergen/spitsbergen.htm

    Please feel free to post some of yours.
     
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  3. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    Very interesting niche you've found there. I like the reverse designs of the later pieces - the various fauna over the island geography. Somebody obviously took some pride in crafting those.

    Can you imagine working in such an isolated, cold, and desolate location? The pieces are probably uncirculated because nobody wanted to go outside and spend them.
     
  4. lettow

    lettow Senior Member

    Once you finish the coins you can start a collection of the paper money from Spitzbergen.
     
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