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1 Rouble Belarusian Orthodox Church; emergency issue - denominated
| Issuer | Belarusian Orthodox Church / Savings Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Reverse description | Text-only reverse carrying a printed explanatory statement regarding the purpose and distribution of the charity tickets. Below the text appear two signature lines for the Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk (Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus) and the Chairman of the Savings Bank of the Republic of Belarus. |
| Reverse lettering | Благотворительные билеты выпущены Белорусской Православной Церковью Московского Патриархата совместно со Сберегательным банком Республики Беларусь для реализации в отделениях Сберегательного банка Беларуси. Средства от продажи благотворительных билетов поступают в распоряжение Белорусской Православной Церкви и направляются на возрождение и строительство православных храмов и монастырей, содержание духовных учебных заведений, социальную церковную деятельность и иные нужды. Митрополит Минский и Слуцкий, Патриарший Экзарх всея Беларуси Председатель Сберегательного банка Республики Беларусь (Translation: Charity tickets were issued by the Belarusian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate together with the Savings Bank of the Republic of Belarus for sale in the branches of the Savings Bank of Belarus. Funds from the sale of charity tickets go to the Belarusian Orthodox Church and are directed to the revival and construction of Orthodox churches and monasteries, the maintenance of religious educational institutions, social church activities and other needs. Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus Chairman of the Savings Bank of the Republic of Belarus) |
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In the economic chaos following Soviet dissolution, Belarus experienced severe coin shortages throughout the early 1990s. The Belarusian Orthodox Church, in coordination with the Savings Bank of the Republic of Belarus, issued this note as a functional small-denomination substitute — a genuinely unusual arrangement in which a religious institution participated directly in emergency currency production under state banking supervision.
The collaboration between a church and a post-Soviet savings bank as co-issuers has no close parallel in the region's monetary history of this period.