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100 Roubles Olympic Games 2012. Handball
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles (100 BYR) |
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| Obverse lettering | РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ Ag 999 100 РУБЛЁЎ 2009 (Translation: THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS Ag 999 100 RUBLES 2009) |
| Reverse description | At center, a detailed depiction of Tower Bridge in London — the host city of the 2012 Olympic Games — forms the principal background element, overlaid by a handball and a pictographic scene of two players, one in attack and one in defence. Below the central design, a two-line inscription reads Алімпійскія гульні 2012 (The 2012 Olympic Games), and along the lower periphery a circumferential legend reads ГАНДБОЛ (HANDBALL) in Cyrillic. The composition effectively combines the London landmark with the sport-specific imagery in a unified design. |
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Belarus issued a substantial series of high-relief silver kilo-weight pieces ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, of which this handball entry is one. Handball rarely appears on Olympic coinage — the sport, though a fixture of the Summer Games since 1972 for men and 1976 for women, is consistently overlooked by mint programs that default to athletics, gymnastics, and swimming.
The National Bank of Belarus produced these as legal tender collectibles with no circulation intent whatsoever, a financing mechanism that became increasingly important to Minsk as the Belarusian ruble suffered severe depreciation around 2011.