250 Roubles Polikarpov Po-2

Antarctica has no issuing authority, no resident population, and no currency — these "Antarctic" coins are novelty issues produced for the collector market, typically licensed through obscure Pacific or African microstates and retro-assigned a fictitious polar jurisdiction. The Po-2, for its part, earned its place on such commemoratives honestly: the Soviet biplane was produced in greater numbers than virtually any other aircraft in history, with estimates ranging from 20,000 to over 40,000 units, and Soviet night-harassment regiments — famously staffed in part by female pilots of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment — used it to torment German positions on the Eastern Front.