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20 Roubles Pottery
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The state emblem of the Republic of Belarus occupies the central field, depicted in high relief within a circular border. Surrounding the emblem is a stylized decorative wreath composed of blueberry branches bearing leaves, flowers, and berries in fine detail. The curved Cyrillic legend РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ arcs around the upper portion of the field, while the denomination 20 РУБЛЁЎ appears below the emblem. The date 2012 and the fineness mark Ag 925 are inscribed in the lower field flanking the wreath. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a stylized folk-art composition centered on a large decorated ceramic jug pouring water, rendered in a naive Belarusian traditional artistic style. The jug is adorned with geometric and floral ornamental motifs characteristic of regional pottery craft. To the left, a small figure of a woman in traditional dress carries water buckets across a rural landscape with ploughed fields, while traditional village cottages appear in the right background. The scene evokes the agrarian and craft traditions of rural Belarus, with flowing water depicted in abstract wavy lines. The Cyrillic legend ГАНЧАРСТВА (meaning 'Pottery') arcs prominently across the upper field. |
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Issued under Belarus's long-running decorative arts series, this piece belongs to a collector-focused program that the National Bank of Belarus sustained through the 2000s and early 2010s to document traditional Slavic crafts. Belarusian folk pottery, centered historically around the Molodechno and Ivyanets regions, was in sharp decline by the Soviet period as industrial ceramics displaced village workshops — a cultural erosion the series implicitly acknowledges.
KM#443 was struck at the Mint of Poland in Warsaw, which handled the majority of Belarusian commemorative production during this period.