2 Roubles Bull

Belarus began issuing a long-running bimetallic circulation series featuring animals of the national zodiac calendar in the early 2000s, and the bull appears as part of that ongoing program tied to the Chinese lunisolar cycle — an unusual cultural borrowing for a Slavic post-Soviet state that reflects the broader numismatic fashion for zodiac coinage that spread across former Soviet republics from the 2000s onward. The 2023 date places this issue well into the Lukashenko-era monetary consolidation that followed the catastrophic 2011 Belarusian ruble crisis, after which the currency was redenominated in 2016 at a rate of 10,000 old rubles to one new.