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20 Roubles The financial system of Belarus. 100 years
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 20 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus, depicting a sun rising over a globe flanked by wheat stalks bound with a ribbon in the national colors, surmounted by a five-pointed star; within the shield a small cartouche inscribed РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ. The legend РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 20 РУБЛЁЎ and date 2018 appear in the lower field. The fineness designation Ag 925 is noted to the right. The entire device is rendered in gold plate over a mirror proof field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a stylized representation of a modern electronic circuit board rendered in high relief, evoking the digital infrastructure of contemporary finance. At the center, a square microchip element bears a lightly engraved outline of the map of Belarus. Surrounding the central chip, a network of circuit traces, connector nodes, and binary-style data elements radiates across the field. The inscriptions ФIНАНСАВАЯ СIСТЭМА БЕЛАРУСI and 100 ГОД are integrated into the circuit-board design along the lower and lateral portions of the field in Cyrillic characters. |
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Belarus established its central bank in 1992, following independence from the Soviet Union — inheriting an economy with no functioning monetary infrastructure of its own. The intervening decades were marked by persistent inflation, a catastrophic currency redenomination in 2000, and a second redenomination in 2016 that lopped four zeros off the Belarusian ruble. Commemorating a "financial system" that spent much of its existence in crisis is, at minimum, an optimistic framing.
The "100 years" reckoning traces the lineage back to Soviet-era institutions rather than post-independence ones — a common practice among former Soviet states seeking longer institutional pedigrees.