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1 Rouble Francisk Skorina's Way. Venice
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#573 |
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| Obverse lettering | РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ 1 РУБЕЛЬ 2016 (Translation: THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS 1 ROUBLE 2016) |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic/Latin |
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This piece belongs to a Belarusian commemorative series tracing the European journey of Francysk Skaryna, the Renaissance polymath from Polack who produced the first printed books in the Eastern Slavic tradition. His Venetian stop matters: in the early sixteenth century he earned a doctorate in medicine from the University of Padua — one of Europe's most prestigious faculties — after examiners reportedly marveled that a man from so distant a land could demonstrate such learning. Venice and Padua were effectively the same intellectual world at that moment.
The oxidized copper-nickel finish was chosen deliberately across this series to evoke aged bronze and distance the pieces from conventional circulation coinage.