Spitzbergen 1946 20 kopeks
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This specimen was lot 3328 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $114. The catalog description[1] noted, "SPITZBERGEN (SVALBARD): 20 kopecks, 1946, Arktikugol token, light cleaning, XF, ex Hans Mondorf Collection. The Soviet (later Russian) state-owned Arktikugol company has mined coal on the Island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago since 1932." This token was issued for use in the Russian concession on Spitzbergen (also known in Norwegian as Svalbard). Ten, fifteen and fifty kopek tokens were also issued in 1946. It was struck in Leningrad.
Recorded mintage: 25,000.
Specifications: 3 g, copper-nickel, 20 mm diameter, reeded edge.
Catalog reference: KM-Tn3.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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