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| Issuer | Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Рэспубліка Беларусь КАРТКА СПАЖЫЎЦА на 50 рублёў Прозвішча __________ Кім выдадзена __________ Кіраўнік __________ Галоўны бухгалтар __________ М. П. ПАДРОБКА ПРАСЛЕДУЕЦЦА ПА ЗАКОНУ (Translation: Republic of Belarus, Consumer card for 50 Rubles, Last name / Issuing authority / Administrator / Chief accountant, Counterfeit is prosecuted by law) |
| Reverse description | Essentially blank reverse, showing only the ghost impression of the obverse coupon grid and central registry panel visible through the thin paper stock, with no printed design or lettering of its own. |
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Belarus issued this note in 1991 under the authority of the newly independent republic, but it draws directly from Soviet-era printing infrastructure and design conventions — the transition was administrative before it was aesthetic. The series to which this belongs predates the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus law of December 1990 coming fully into effect, placing these early emissions in an awkward institutional gap between Soviet republican authority and genuine central banking.
The "A" prefix in the Pick reference signals this is catalogued separately from the main P#2 series — a distinction made to differentiate emission authorization, not merely print runs.