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20 Roubles Hedgehog
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Republic of Belarus is depicted at centre, featuring a green outlined map of the country superimposed on globe rays, flanked by wheat sheaves bound with a red-green ribbon and bearing clover and flax blossoms, surmounted by a five-pointed star. The legend РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ arcs around the upper field in Cyrillic characters, with the denomination 20 РУБЛЁЎ and fineness mark Ag 999 appearing in the lower field alongside the date 2011. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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Part of Belarus's long-running wildlife series, this issue belongs to a broader program the National Bank launched in the 2000s that combined precious metal coinage with embedded Swarovski crystal elements — a production technique requiring coordination between the Mint and the Austrian crystal manufacturer. The hedgehog piece proved popular enough in secondary markets that premiums over spot climbed steeply within a few years of release, driven almost entirely by collector demand from outside Belarus itself.