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1 Rouble Middle Reaches of the Prypyat River
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ САЛЬВІНІЯ ПЛЫВУЧАЯ 1 РУБЕЛЬ 2010 (Translation: THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS SALVINIA NATANS 1 RUBLE 2010) |
| Reverse description | The center of the reverse presents a relief image of a European pond turtle (bog turtle) set against a naturalistic landscape depicting a lake and its reed-lined bank. At the top, a traditional Belarusian ornamental motif symbolizing life forms a decorative border element. The inscription БАЛОТНАЯ ЧАРАПАХА (Bog Turtle) is engraved along the lower portion of the field, identifying the featured species. |
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Part of Belarus's long-running regional rivers series, this rouble was issued during a period when the National Bank was aggressively expanding its collector coinage program — producing hundreds of thematic copper-nickel issues that flooded the specialty market in the 2000s and early 2010s. The Prypyat is arguably the most geopolitically loaded river in the former Soviet space: its middle reaches flow within roughly 15 kilometers of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and its drainage basin carried contaminated sediment across the Belarus-Ukraine border following the 1986 reactor disaster.
The river remains subject to ongoing radiological monitoring by Belarusian environmental authorities.