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20 Roubles Legend of the Bee
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a stylized wooden cartwheel rendered in fine detail, surrounded by four realistically engraved honeybees in flight arranged symmetrically around the wheel. Honeycomb-patterned segments are interspersed between the bees, evoking a traditional folk motif. The Belarusian state coat of arms appears at the top center. The circular legend 'РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ' runs along the upper periphery, while the denomination '20 РУБЛЁЎ' and the silver fineness mark 'Ag 925' appear at the lower portion of the field, along with the date '2017'. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Part of Belarus's long-running folklore series, this issue draws on Slavic apiary tradition — beekeeping has been central to Belarusian rural culture since at least the medieval period, with wild-hive honey harvesting documented in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's agricultural records. The National Bank has used the series consistently to press silver into commemorative channels rather than circulation, a pattern that accelerated sharply after the 2011 Belarusian currency crisis gutted confidence in the ruble.
KM#596 is a collector-only issue with no circulation mandate. Mintage figures for this series have historically been capped in the low thousands.