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Sovjet-style Svalbard Coin · #100108
When numbers get serious … The Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras (ca. 570–490 BC) is said to have been able to recall his previous lives, he could speak to bears and eagles, he even had a golden thigh. But first and foremost and last but not least: he taught that “all things are number”. And his favorite number? The answer is ten; 10. So this coin is for you, Pythagoras! (Note to Peter the Great: We have borrowed your conventional two-headed eagle symbol on the obverse of this coin.) Perhaps we should have minted 10 coins of this type. But at the end of the day we opted for just one. One of its kind.