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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2047186, member: 39&quot;]Guess what may be confusing about these pieces is the use of Russian (and Cyrillic characters) on them. The island of Spitsbergen is, like all of Svalbard, part of Norway. However, various mining companies operate there, and one of them is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arktikugol" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arktikugol" rel="nofollow">Arktikugol</a>. That name is also used on those tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1993 pieces had to be withdrawn, by the way, because the Norwegian government objected to the &quot;Russian Federation&quot; reference. And from what I have read, the tokens dated 1998 were not actually used - today Arktikugol uses chip cards ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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