2012 BELARUS 2014 Sochi Olympics X-SKIING Proof Silver 20 Ruble Coin NGC I106394

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Item:<br>i106394<br>Authentic Coin of:<br>Belarus<br>The 2014 Olympic Games. Cross-country Skiing<br>2012 Proof<br>Silver 20 Roubles<br>38.61mm<br>(<br>28.28<br>grams) .925 Silver  (0.841 oz. ASW)<br>Reference: N# 124755 | Designer: Michael Schulze<br>Certification:<br>NGC<br>PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO 2864213-003<br>РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ • 20 РУБЛЁЎ • Ag 925 2012, Coat-of-arms.<br>АЛIМПIЙСКIЯ ГУЛЬНI 2014 ЛЫЖНЫЯ ГОНKI, Cross country skiiers racing 1/2 right.<br>You are bidding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity..<br>Kontush belt<br>("kontusz sash" or the<br>Slutsk sash<br>; Lithuanian:<br>Kontušo juosta<br>, Belarusian: Слуцкi пояс) was a cloth sash used for girding a kontusz (a robe-like garment). It was one of the most distinctive items of male dress of Polish and Lithuanian nobility (<br>szlachta<br>) from about 17th through the 19th centuries. In an earlier period, sometimes narrower sashes of fine cloth or silk net were worn, but the wide kontusz sash is specific to the later period.<br>Initially such sashes were imported from Persia and Turkey. In the 17th century several sash manufactories were founded at places all over<br>Rzeczpospolita<br>, such as Kobyłka, Lipków, Hrodna, Kraków and Gdańsk. The largest and most notable manufacturies, however, were at Slutsk. Sashes produced there were considered the most desirable and were also the most expensive. Because of the popularity of the<br>pas kontuszowy<br>produced there, it was sometimes called<br>pas słucki<br>(Slutsk sash), regardless of the actual place of origin. Slutsk (city of Slutsk) sashes had two different color patterns on each side. A modern Polish poet and a singer, Jacek Kaczmarski, has sung about those sashes in one of his ballads,<br>Z pasa słuckiego pożytek<br>(The uses of a Slutsk sash).<br>Slutsk sash is declared to be a cultural heritage of Belarus. Kontush Sash an Attribute of a Nobleman. THe Kontush Sash (belt) has an oriental provenance rooted in Persian and Turkish tradition. Continual contact between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Persia and even more with Turkey developed vast trade roots and raised popular interest in oriental art and decoration all over “Eastern” Europe. The Ideology of Sarmathism created in the XVIc a wide super-ethnos embracing many Central European nations. The Kontush Belt was a visual manifestation of Sarmathian identity and was widely popular in Lithuania and Belarus, in Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Saxony, Moldavia, Besarabia and some parts of Russia. Kontush belts were worn by the Nobility, Cossack elders and high municipal officials. The time of prosperity during the period of XVI – XVIIIc created surplus financial resources often channeled into culture, art and decoration. Polish Armenian merchants imported objects of luxury: oriental carpets, weapons decorated with gold and stones, expensive fabrics. Kontush belts especially emphasized the status of the bearer and were unusually expensive. At a certain moment the demand for Kontush belts became so large that it was necessary to open local manufacturing on the territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The workshops producing Kontush Belts in Slutsk, Grodno, Lvov, Vilnius, Buchach, Kobylki, Kraków, Gdansk, Lipkow were opened mostly by Polish–Lithuanian Armenians. The belts that were made there still had a lot of oriental ornamentation, but had their own distinct character – different from the belts formerly imported from Persia and Turkey. There was a practical aspect to the belt as well. Folded in half and wrapped around the body, it served as a pocket for money and documents. Most belts are about 30 cm wide and around 3,5m long. As a result of the weaving technique – one side of the belt was a negative of the other. This way it was possible for the belt to have two different color schemes (so called two-sided belt). Further division of the belt allowed for four color compositions (four-sided belt). The price of the belt depended on the materials used (sometimes they added silver and gold thread). The complexity of the design raised the price even more since it required more complicated manufacturing machinery, higher qualifications of the craftsmen and a longer production cycle. The four-sided belts were the most expensive. They were meant to be worn on different occasions: bright side – for weddings, dark side for funerals, green side for the green kontush etc. Very often