Issuer Belarus

Issuing bank National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (Нацыянальны банк Рэспублікі Беларусь)

Period Republic (1991-date)

Type Non-circulating coin

Year 2006

Value 20 Roubles (20 BYR)

Currency Second Rouble (2000-2016)

Composition Silver (.925) (oxidized, synthetic crystal)

Weight 28.28 g

Diameter 38.61 mm

Shape Round

Technique Milled, inlaid

Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑

Number N#21754Help

References KM# 358

Commemorative issue

The Thousand and one nights

Series: Tales of the World's Nations

Obverse

At the bottom – a relief effigy of the State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus; in the center – at the background of a starry sky there is an image of a boy and a girl holding an opened book; beneath – year of issue; inscriptions along the rim: at the top – "РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ" (REPUBLIC OF BELARUS), at the bottom – "ДВАЦЦАЦЬ РУБЛЁЎ" (TWENTY ROUBLES).

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:

РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ

2006

ДВАЦЦАЦЬ РУБЛЁЎ

Translation:

The Republic of Belarus

2006

Twenty Roubles

Designer: Svetlana Nekrasova

Reverse

At the top along the rim – inscription " ТЫСЯЧА І АДНА НОЧ"; in the center – a dome–shaped arch inside which it is entered ornamental fragment of a ceiling of a palace of Caliph, with an insert from artificial transparent crystal of blue colour, behind arch windows – fantastic landscapes; below – on a background of east city of the image most frequently met subject characters of east fairy tales: an amphora, the carpet – plane, a camel and the snake; at the left – a landscape of night East city; on the right – a musical instrument – domra, a tree, birds. At turn of a coin on 180° instead of arches and landscapes we shall see the person of east woman in a veil with rich ornamental ornate.

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering: ТЫСЯЧА І АДНА НОЧ

Translation: The Thousand and one nights

Designer: Svetlana Nekrasova

Edge

Plain

Mint

Mint of Poland (Mennica Polska), Warsaw, Poland (1766-date)

Comments

Date of issue 22-12-2006