What, this Althing?

Weiss

I've posted it before, but I kinda forget about it and rediscover it because it's not in my slabbed box...







Iceland 10 Kroner, 1930, original box
45mm, 35 grams .925 silver
Mintage: 10,000
Obverse
The King of Thule
Relief by Einar Jonsson (1874-1954)
Reverse
Icelandic coat of arms
Artwork Baldvin Björnsson (1879-1945)
Edge Marked: 10 Kronur

Commemorating the 1,000th anniversary of the Icelandic Althing (Icelandic Parliament).
Struck privately by the Saxon State Mint, Muldenhutten, Germany, at the instigation of a Parliamentary committee.
Under a law on the celebration of the millennium of the Althing in 1930 the government was permitted to issue a set of medals with embossed value. The law stipulated that the medals could be given validity as legal tender by a royal decree, but this provision was never carried into effect.

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NiceCurrency

I'll hold my tongue and not say what I was about to and just say that is a bizzare design

cladking

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I've always liked this coin a lot and want to own it but never noticed before how long his upper legs are.

This is a very nice specimen and I imagine there arenm't a lot of the boxes left.

Zohar

Superb always liked that design!

SaorAlba

I have the 2 kroner from the set only, and curiously it is sitting on my desk waiting to be photographed. Sometime I would like to find the complete three coin set.

That is a very nice 10 Kroner.

Weiss

I bought a 3-piece set a few years back. NGC slabbed. The big 10 kronur was gorgeous with beautiful toning and I was totally in love with it. But the 2 kronur had really bad planchet flaws. Ordinarily that would have been kind of neat. But in a complete MS set, I felt it was just too much of a distraction

Reverse and edge mark of the 10 kronur: