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20 Roubles Pharny Roman Catholic Church. Nesvizh
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Value | 20 Roubles (20 BYR) |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Republic of Belarus occupies the central field, depicting a sun rising over a globe flanked by wheat sheaves bound with a ribbon in the national colors, with a five-pointed star at the apex and a decorative wreath of clover and flax encircling the emblem. A small cartouche inscribed 'РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ' appears on the ribbon at the base of the arms. The silver fineness 'Ag 925' is inscribed to the lower left of the central device, and the date '2005' appears below. The circular legend 'РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ' arcs around the upper portion of the coin, while 'ДВАЦЦАЦЬ РУБЛЁЎ' (Twenty Roubles) runs along the lower periphery, all rendered in raised Cyrillic lettering. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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Nesvizh's Corpus Christi Church, completed in 1593, was the first Baroque church built on the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and served as the burial place of the Radziwiłł family — one of the most powerful magnate dynasties in Eastern European history. The building was designed by the Italian architect Giovanni Maria Bernardoni, a Jesuit, and became the architectural model for dozens of later Baroque churches across the region.
Belarus began its architectural heritage silver series in the early 2000s partly to assert cultural ownership over monuments that had passed through Polish, Russian, and Soviet administrative hands. The Radziwiłł crypt beneath the church contains 72 sarcophagi.