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20 Roubles Francisk Skorina's Way. Polatsk
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus is depicted in relief at the top of the field, accompanied by a circumferential legend reading РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ. The central field bears a quotation on love for the homeland, drawn from F. Skaryna's preface to the Book of Judith. Flanking ornamental cartouches frame the year of issue on the left and the alloy fineness designation on the right. The denomination 20 РУБЛЁЎ is inscribed at the bottom of the field. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Francisk Skorina printed the first book in the Belarusian language in Prague in 1517 — a translation of the Psalter — before establishing a printing house in Vilna around 1522, making him the first printer in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and one of the earliest in Eastern Europe. Polatsk, his birthplace, had been a significant principality centuries before Skorina's time, but by the sixteenth century it was contested ground, passing between the Grand Duchy and Muscovy repeatedly across his lifetime.
This is the second coin in the "Francisk Skorina's Way" series, which traces sites connected to his life and work across modern Belarus.