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20 Roubles The Stone Flower
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse description | At the lower portion of the field, a relief effigy of the State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus is depicted. The central field presents a scene of a boy and a girl holding an open book, set against a starry sky background. The date of issue appears beneath the central design. The upper rim bears the Cyrillic legend 'РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ' (Republic of Belarus), while the lower rim carries the denomination inscription 'ДВАЦЦАЦЬ РУБЛЁЎ' (Twenty Roubles). |
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| Obverse lettering | РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ 2005 ДВАЦЦАЦЬ РУБЛЁЎ |
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Part of Belarus's long-running series of coins incorporating synthetic stones, this issue draws on the 1946 Soviet fairy tale film The Stone Flower, itself adapted from Pavel Bazhov's Ural folktales collected in The Malachite Box. Bazhov spent decades mining the oral traditions of Ural metalworkers before publishing the cycle in 1939, and the stone-cutting imagery runs through the source material with genuine regional specificity — the Ural lapidary trade was among the most technically sophisticated in the empire.
The oxidized finish was applied deliberately to contrast with the inset crystal, a production choice the Minsk mint refined across multiple releases in this series.