Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Roubles Yakub Kolas
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
|---|---|
| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | At center, the State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus is rendered in relief within a circular geometric ornamental border. The date of issue, fine silver content, and alloy standard appear beneath the arms in the lower field. The upper legend reads 'РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ' (Republic of Belarus) and the lower legend reads 'ДЗЕСЯЦЬ РУБЛЁЎ' (Ten Roubles), both disposed along the rim in Cyrillic script. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Yakub Kolas — pen name of Kanstantsin Mickiewicz — was one of the two founding giants of modern Belarusian literature, alongside Yanka Kupala. Both men spent years under Soviet suspicion; Kolas was interrogated by the NKVD in the late 1930s during the purges that decimated the Belarusian intelligentsia, yet survived where most of his contemporaries did not. He died in 1956, the same year Khrushchev delivered his secret speech denouncing Stalin.
This coin was issued as part of a broader National Bank series rehabilitating Belarusian cultural identity — a project with its own political undertow given Lukashenko's simultaneous suppression of the Belarusian language in official life.