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20 Roubles Legend of the Tortoise
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus is displayed at the top of the field. The central device features stylized silhouetted images of tortoises and female figures drawn from Belarusian folk legend, interwoven with traditional ornamental patterns and a spinning wheel motif whose decorative spokes transition organically into the concentric ring structure of a tree cross-section, symbolising perpetual motion and the cycle of nature. The year of issue and alloy fineness appear in the lower field. Circumferential legends read РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ at the top and 20 РУБЛЁЎ at the bottom. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Part of Belarus's long-running folklore series, this issue draws on an Eastern fable tradition that sits somewhat outside the core Slavic canon — the tortoise as a figure of wisdom and patience appears more commonly in Central Asian and Caucasian storytelling than in Belarusian folk literature proper. The National Bank began issuing themed collector silver in the early 2000s as a hard-currency revenue stream, a strategy common among smaller post-Soviet states with limited export economies.
KM#237 is a low-mintage proof issue with no circulation history.