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10 Roubles Adam Mickiewicz
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | First Rouble (1992-2000) |
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| Obverse lettering | РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ Ag 925 1998 15,55 ДЗЕСЯЦЬ РУБЛЁЎ |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued the year Belarus was navigating its deepening political alignment with Russia under Lukashenko, this coin honoring Adam Mickiewicz carries a quiet irony — Mickiewicz was born near Nowogródek, in what is now Belarus, but is claimed as a national poet by Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus simultaneously. The Belarusian state's decision to mint him reflects a deliberate effort to anchor territorial and cultural legitimacy through a figure whose national identity was never straightforwardly resolved in his own lifetime.
He died in Constantinople in 1855, reportedly organizing Polish legions to fight Russia in the Crimean War.