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| Issuer | National Bank of Belarus |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 200 Roubles (200 BYB) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Minsk-Pasažyrski railway station and surrounding buildings in Stalinist neoclassical architectural style, set against a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral appears above the central design, with lettering in Belarusian across the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | ДЗВЕСЦЕ РУБЛЁЎ 200 (Translation: Two Hundred Rubles) |
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Belarus issued its first independent currency series in 1992 while still navigating the collapse of Soviet monetary infrastructure. The ruble zone was disintegrating, and Minsk needed circulating notes fast — speed, not sophistication, defined the early issues. The single watermark was essentially the minimum credible security for a sovereign note at the time.
Pick 9 is part of the so-called "Zaichiki" series, named after the animals depicted across the denominations — a nickname that stuck hard enough to define the entire 1992 issue in popular memory.