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Thank you for checking out my listings. Please feel free to check my Me page and my feedback. Moneyback guarantee including postage and your postage. Next business day shipping unless I can get it to the post office that day!PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT MY OTHER LISTINGS.Now that eBay charges a 9% Final Value Fee on POSTAGE as well, I am offering FREE SHIPPING. That's Free Shipping no matter where on earth you are! No limit on number of items. HOWEVER, if you want registered mail or insurance you must pay for that. You can check postal rates at www.usps.gov Although I do offer coins and notes from internationally recognized nations, my love is the community, micronation and fantasy creations. Just to be plain, the fantasy issue is a coin or paper note issued by a real or imaginary place without authority from any government. The book Unusual World Coins lists many of these although there are new ones coming out all the time. Most have VERY limited mintages, mostly 100 or less. PLEASE If you're not sure, please email me through eBay. THIS IS A 1/10 OUNCE .999 SILVER Russian American Company undenominated coin. It is my understanding this is one of 31 coins. The coin is made in Alaska and you get the story found below. I did not have these coins made but was commissioned to reasearch and write the story which was checked by folks in Alaska. The story below is used with permission of RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY: THE LOST CAMPThe Russian American Company, not unlike the East India Company in many ways, was a Russian Government sponsored company. In short, the purpose of the company was to financially benefit from the natural resources of Russian owned American territory. It functioned as a monopoly.The year was 1805 when the Russian American Company established a fort in what is now known as Yakutat, Alaska. Commander Alexander Baranof quickly set up operations harvesting sea otter pelts. The post was staffed by Russian convicts. Accounts as far back as the late 1790s indicate the presence of the Russian American Company. Their behavior was not pleasing to the Tlingit people inhabiting Yakutat. They claimed the Russian American Company restricted their travel, refused to allow the Tlingit to fish, took control of the salmon fishing, enslaved the native people and were even known to abduct their children.As you might suspect, the tactics of the Russian American Company were despised by the Tlingit people and the fort only accelerated the hostilities.It was later in 1805 that the Tlingit people put action behind their frustration and waged war with the Russian American Company, destroying the fort and killing the occupants of the fort. The history books leave the story here. Beyond this point, fact and fiction becomes lost in a fog. It is here we follow little known accounts. Working from snippets of details recorded in various writings and oral accounts from the elderly native population, duly noted in various diaries and other written accounts, we strive to piece together the history, realizing we must connect the dots along the way. Sometimes the dot we connect with is far removed from the previous dot. Imagine trying to offer full details of a movie when all you have are a number of single frames for reference. This is, indeed, our situation.The reality remains so clouded primarily because the players were Russian convicts, people without clear records as they were expendable. Thus, the convict population at the fort was ‘invisible’ as far as records went. As the fort was destroyed and all the people there perished at the hands of the Tlingit people, the fort’s records were also destroyed. There would be no official account of the scouts being sent off before the battle.“From all accounts, the Tlignit were riled up and ready tostand in defense of their lands.”“When the fishing season was starting, a scouting party headed<... read more

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