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50 Kopek
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 2000 |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of a Eurasian red squirrel in profile occupies the right half of the note against a fine guilloche underprint in red and orange tones. To the upper left, a decorative panel contains a traditional Belarusian folk-pattern ornament. A scalloped guilloche cartouche at lower left bears the numeral "50" with the inscription "КАПЕЕК" beneath, while the denomination legend "ПЯЦЬДЗЕСЯТ КАПЕЕК" runs along the top and the numeral "50" appears at upper right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Belarus issued this note as part of its inaugural series following independence from the Soviet Union, temporarily denominated in rublei equivalents using kopek subdivisions before the full transition to the Belarusian ruble was consolidated. The 1992 series represents the first sovereign paper currency the country had ever issued under its own central bank — not a transitional coupon, but a formal introductory emission.
Low-denomination notes in this series circulated hard and were discarded quickly as inflation rendered them effectively worthless within a few years of issue, making clean examples harder to locate than the higher values.