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10 Roubles Vincent Dunin-Martsynkevich
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Reverse description | The central field bears a relief portrait of Vincent Dunin-Martsynkevich, the celebrated Belarusian playwright and poet. Fragments of period theatrical playbills are depicted to the right of the portrait, referencing his dramatic legacy. A circumferential inscription in Cyrillic, arranged in two lines along the upper periphery, reads В. ДУНІН–МАРЦІНКЕВІЧ (V. Dunin-Martsynkevich), accompanied by his years of life 1808–1884. |
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| Reverse lettering | В. ДУНІН–МАРЦІНКЕВІЧ 1808–1884 |
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Dunin-Martsynkevich was a 19th-century Belarusian poet and playwright who wrote primarily in the Belarusian language at a time when tsarist authorities were actively suppressing its use in print. His 1846 operetta Sialanka is considered the founding work of modern Belarusian-language theater. The National Bank of Belarus has issued numerous collector silver pieces honoring cultural figures underrepresented in Soviet-era historiography — this is squarely in that vein.