What, this Althing?
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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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We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame
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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.
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That is a very nice 10 Kroner.
Reverse and edge mark of the 10 kronur:
--Severian the Lame