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200 Roubles
| Issuer | National Bank of Belarus |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ДЗВЕСЦЕ РУБЛЁЎ 200 (Translation: Two Hundred Rubles) |
| Reverse description | Central oval guilloche medallion, surrounded by an elaborate layered rosette pattern in green and orange tones, contains the Pahonia vignette — an armoured knight on rearing horseback, bearing a sword and a shield charged with a double cross. Denomination numerals '200' appear in dark ink within green cartouches to the left and right of the central medallion, and the year '1992' is printed in blue at the lower right. |
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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.