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2 Roubles Bison
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The copper-nickel centre features the State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus — a detailed rendition depicting a sun rising over a globe flanked by wheat sheaves, with a clover and flax blossom at the base and a red star at the apex, inscribed РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ on a ribbon below. The brass outer ring bears the country name БЕЛАРУСЬ arched along the upper periphery and the denomination 2 РУБЛІ along the lower periphery. Traditional Belarusian folk ornamental motifs decorate the ring on both sides of the coat of arms. |
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| Edge | Smooth with lettering |
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Belarus introduced a redesigned circulation coinage series in 2016 following the redenomination that stripped four zeros from the old ruble, collapsing 10,000 old rubles into a single new one — the country's second redenomination since 1994. The bison on this denomination references the European bison, or wisent, which came within a handful of individuals of extinction in the wild; the last free-ranging specimen was shot in 1927. Captive breeding programs, anchored largely in Białowieża Forest straddling the Belarusian-Polish border, brought the species back from roughly 54 animals.