20 Roubles Christianity (In The Roman Catholic Religion)

Issued as part of Belarus's broader late-1990s commemorative program exploring religious traditions practiced within the country's borders, this coin acknowledges Roman Catholicism's historic presence in a nation where the Orthodox Church dominates. The distinction matters: Catholicism in Belarus is concentrated heavily among ethnic Poles in the western regions, a demographic legacy of centuries under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and later the interwar Polish state before Soviet annexation in 1939.

KM#43 was struck in a limited proof issue and saw no circulation use whatsoever.