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20 Roubles Kalyady
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 20 Roubles (20 BYR) |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts a stylized Kalyady star — a traditional Belarusian Christmas folk ornament — rendered as a multi-pointed sunburst atop a slender stem, set with a faceted blue artificial crystal at its centre. The star is elaborately detailed with beaded and dotted ornamentation in high relief against an antique-finished field. Below the star, a rectangular inner panel portrays a winter rural landscape with snow-covered cottages and bare trees. Flanking the central panel are traditional Belarusian embroidery-style folk motifs including stylized birds and geometric patterns in low relief. The legend 'КАЛЯДЫ' (Kalyady) is inscribed in bold Cyrillic lettering along the lower edge within a plain rectangular cartouche. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Kalyady is the Belarusian name for the winter solstice festival predating Christian influence in the region, later syncretized with Christmas under Soviet-era suppression and revived as a distinct cultural marker after independence in 1991. Belarus launched its folklore and traditions commemorative series in the early 2000s partly as a deliberate state project to reassert a pre-Soviet national identity through numismatic means. The oxidized finish is intentional — it reinforces the archaic aesthetic the series pursues across its issues.