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1 Rouble Polotsk
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Reverse description | At center, a detailed relief depicting the architectural layout of the ancient city of Polotsk based on a 16th-century engraving, evoking the city's historic urban form. In the upper right portion of the field, the city's heraldic coat of arms as used during the 16th to 18th centuries is displayed. Peripheral legends along the rim read ПОЛАЦК (Polatsk) and ГАРАДЫ БЕЛАРУСI (Belarusian Cities), separated by a pellet stop, identifying the coin as part of the Belarusian Cities commemorative series. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued as part of Belarus's "Cities of Belarus" commemorative series, this rouble marks Polotsk's claim as the oldest recorded city in the country, first mentioned in the Rus' Primary Chronicle under the year 862. The National Bank launched the series in the late 1990s partly as an exercise in post-Soviet national identity construction — Polotsk's medieval Principality had been independent enough from both Moscow and Kiev to make it a politically convenient symbol.
Polotsk was also home to Euphrosyne, a 12th-century abbess later canonized, and to the polymath Francysk Skaryna, who produced the first printed books in the Cyrillic-script Ruthenian language in 1517.