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10 Roubles Maxim Tank
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2012 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | A three-quarter portrait bust of the Belarusian poet Maxim Tank (1912–1995) dominates the reverse, depicted in a contemplative pose with hands clasped beneath his chin, rendered in finely detailed high relief against a polished proof field. Behind the figure, a landscape scene evokes his characteristic imagery: cranes in flight above a reed-lined waterway bathed in atmospheric light. In the lower portion of the field, the poet's name appears in flowing Cyrillic script as Максім Танк, accompanied by his birth and death years 1912–1995 inscribed below in Roman numerals. |
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Maxim Tank was the pen name of Yawhen Skurko, the Belarusian poet who became one of the most politically complicated literary figures of the Soviet period — celebrated by the state while writing in a language the same state persistently marginalized. This coin belongs to Belarus's long-running series honoring national cultural figures, issued with particular intensity during the 2000s and 2010s as the Lukashenko government sought to project a distinctly Belarusian identity through numismatic soft power.
Tank died in 1995, making this a posthumous issue some seventeen years after his death.