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20 Roubles The Belts of Slutsk. Collecting
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ 2013 Ag 925 20 РУБЛЁЎ |
| Reverse description | The central design features a reproduction of the catalog cover from the 1927 exhibition of Slutsk belts held at the Belarusian State Museum in Minsk, accompanied by an image of a belt fragment from the collection of Ivan Lutskevich — the same collection shown to Maksim Bogdanovich, which inspired his poem 'The Weavers of Slutsk.' The legend СЛУЦКІЯ ПАЯСЫ. КАЛЕКЦЫЯНАВАННЕ (The Belts of Slutsk. Collecting) runs along the left rim. Additional inscriptions referencing the 1927 catalog and its Minsk venue appear within the central design. |
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Slutsk belts — hand-woven silk and gold-thread sashes produced in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the mid-18th century — were among the most expensive luxury goods in Eastern Europe, with a single belt sometimes costing as much as a serf's annual labor output. Production centered on the Słuck manufactory founded by Prince Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł around 1758, which trained local weavers to replicate Persian and Ottoman textile techniques. Fewer than 200 authenticated original belts survive today, scattered across museums in Minsk, Warsaw, Kraków, and Vilnius.
This coin is part of a multi-issue series from the National Bank of Belarus dedicated to the belts, reflecting their status as a symbol of Belarusian cultural heritage — a designation that carries political weight given the object's origins in a Polish-Lithuanian noble tradition.