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20 Roubles Wolves
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 20 Roubles (20 BYR) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a naturalistic scene featuring two grey wolves (Canis lupus) rendered in high-relief proof finish. The foreground displays a large close-up portrait of a wolf's head occupying the right portion of the field, its eyes inlaid with two yellow Swarovski crystals that give a lifelike glint. A second wolf stands alert on a rocky outcrop in the middle ground to the left, depicted in full body profile. The bilingual legend ВАЎКI · CANIS LUPUS curves along the upper arc of the coin in Cyrillic and Latin scripts respectively. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Part of Belarus's long-running wildlife series, this issue was produced at a moment when the National Bank was aggressively expanding its collector program, partly to generate hard currency through numismatic exports. The embedded Swarovski crystals — a partnership that became a minor fad among Eastern European mints in the mid-2000s — were sourced from Austria and set individually after striking, making each piece technically a two-stage production.
KM#168 is catalogued with a mintage low enough that secondary market attrition from improper storage (crystal loosening is a documented issue with this type) has quietly reduced the population of problem-free examples.