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1 Rouble Polotsk

Emittent National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
Jahr 1998
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Durchmesser 33 mm
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Aversbeschreibung At center, the State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus rendered in relief, enclosed within a circular geometric ornamental border. The year of issue appears beneath the arms in the lower field. The upper rim bears the legend РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ (Republic of Belarus) and the lower rim bears the denomination inscription АД3IН РУБЕЛЬ (One Rouble), the latter separated by a pellet stop.
Aversschrift Cyrillic
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Issued as part of Belarus's "Cities of Belarus" commemorative series, this rouble marks Polotsk's claim as the oldest recorded city in the country, first mentioned in the Rus' Primary Chronicle under the year 862. The National Bank launched the series in the late 1990s partly as an exercise in post-Soviet national identity construction — Polotsk's medieval Principality had been independent enough from both Moscow and Kiev to make it a politically convenient symbol.

Polotsk was also home to Euphrosyne, a 12th-century abbess later canonized, and to the polymath Francysk Skaryna, who produced the first printed books in the Cyrillic-script Ruthenian language in 1517.