10 Roubles Azure Tit

Belarus has issued commemorative wildlife coins in silver under its ongoing nature series for decades, but the Azure Tit — Cyanistes cyanus — is a genuinely uncommon subject even by the standards of that program, being a species whose Belarusian population sits at the western edge of a range extending deep into Siberia. The National Bank has drawn on ornithological subjects repeatedly since the 1990s, partly as a soft-power exercise in projecting environmental stewardship during periods of acute international isolation.

KM#740 was issued in 2022, the same year Western sanctions against Belarus intensified following the country's role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine — making this among the last issues the National Bank could distribute through conventional international numismatic channels.