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20 Roubles Napoleon Orda
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus is depicted in relief at the top of the field. At the center, architectural and landscape views of Belarus are rendered on a stylized staff, reproduced from drawings by Napoleon Orda. The year of issue appears to the right, and the alloy fineness designation appears to the left. Circumferential legends read РЭСПУБЛИКА БЕЛАРУСЬ at the top and 20 РУБЛЁЎ at the bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1807 - 1883 НАПАЛЕОН ОРДА (Translation: 1807–1883 NAPOLEON ORDA) |
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Napoleon Orda was born in 1807 in the Grodno Governorate — then under Russian imperial rule — and spent decades in Parisian exile after participating in the 1830 November Uprising against Russian authority. The Belarusian commemorative program has made a sustained effort to reclaim figures like Orda as part of a distinct national cultural identity, a politically pointed exercise given that imperial Russian historiography consistently absorbed such figures into a broader "Russian" narrative.
Orda is best remembered today for his extraordinary series of lithographic drawings documenting the architectural heritage of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth territories, completed in the 1850s–70s.