10 Roubles St. Seraphim of Sarov

Seraphim of Sarov, canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1903 in a ceremony personally championed by Nicholas II, became one of the most venerated saints in post-Soviet religious revival. Belarus issued several silver devotional pieces in the mid-2000s targeting this renewed popular piety, with the synthetic crystal additions serving a liturgical aesthetic function rather than any numismatic tradition. The crystals are a known fragility point — examples with even one missing stone are substantially discounted.