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20 Roubles Christianity (In The Orthodox Religion)
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 20 Roubles (20 BYB) |
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| Obverse lettering | РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ 1999 Ag 925 31,1 • ДВАЦЦАЦЬ РУБЛЁЎ • |
| Reverse description | At center, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is depicted in relief with fine architectural detail. Above the church, the Star of Bethlehem radiates prominently in the upper field. The circumferential legend is divided between the upper rim, reading 2000 ГОД НАРАДЖЭННЮ ХРЫСТОВУ (2000 Years since Jesus Christ's Birth), and the lower rim, reading ВIФЛЕЕМ (Bethlehem), each segment separated by raised dot stops. |
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Issued as part of Belarus's ambitious commemorative silver program launched in the late 1990s, this coin marks the 2000th anniversary of Christianity — a date the Orthodox Church calculates from the birth of Christ rather than the Gregorian calendar's reckoning. The National Bank of Belarus produced numerous religious-themed pieces during this period, partly as a cultural assertion following Soviet-era suppression of the Orthodox Church, which had seen monasteries shuttered and clergy imprisoned under Brezhnev well into the 1980s.
KM#42 is among the earlier entries in what became a lengthy commemorative silver series, with mintages for this period typically kept low for the collector market.