Belarus redenominated its currency in 2000 at a ratio of 1,000 to 1, collapsing years of post-Soviet inflation into a new kopeck series that finally made small-denomination coins viable again. By 2009, the National Bank had refined the series into brass-plated steel to control production costs — the Belarusian ruble remained chronically weak, and another redenomination was already being discussed in financial circles. That second redenomination came in 2016, at 10,000 to 1, rendering this entire coin series obsolete within a decade of issue.
Belarus redenominated its currency in 2000 at a ratio of 1,000 to 1, collapsing years of post-Soviet inflation into a new kopeck series that finally made small-denomination coins viable again. By 2009, the National Bank had refined the series into brass-plated steel to control production costs — the Belarusian ruble remained chronically weak, and another redenomination was already being discussed in financial circles. That second redenomination came in 2016, at 10,000 to 1, rendering this entire coin series obsolete within a decade of issue.