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20 Roubles Middle Reaches of the Prypyat River
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed naturalistic relief of a European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) occupies the center and lower portion of the field, depicted in three-quarter view facing right amid aquatic vegetation including reeds and grasses rendered in detailed relief. The mirror-polished proof field provides strong contrast to the frosted design elements. A decorative square ornamental motif appears in the upper left of the field. The Cyrillic inscription БАЛОТНАЯ ЧАРАПАХА (Bog Turtle) is inscribed in the lower right portion of the field. |
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Part of Belarus's long-running Nature of the Motherland series, this issue commemorates the Prypyat River basin — the same watershed that flows directly through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone roughly 150 kilometers to the south. The Prypyat was effectively closed to navigation and its floodplains evacuated following the 1986 disaster, but the middle reaches within Belarus recovered ecologically in ways scientists did not anticipate, partly because human activity collapsed so abruptly.
The National Bank of Belarus has issued dozens of wildlife and nature-themed silver coins since the mid-1990s, a program driven largely by collector export revenue rather than domestic circulation.