1 Zlotnik Alpine shrew

The LSSDB "Topaz" is a Ukrainian defense and special electronics enterprise — its pivot into commemorative and novelty coinage during the 2010s reflects a broader post-Soviet pattern of state-adjacent industrial firms monetizing their minting and die-cutting infrastructure. These pieces occupy an ambiguous category: neither official legal tender nor purely decorative, they circulate within collector networks as fantasy or localized trade tokens. The zlotnik itself is a pre-imperial Russian unit of weight — roughly 4.26 grams — appropriated here as a denomination name with deliberate historical flavor rather than any current monetary authority.