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500 Roubles
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Size | 159 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ПЯЦЬСОТ РУБЛЁЎ 500 2009 НАЦЫЯНАЛЬНЫ БАНК РЭСПУБЛІКІ БЕЛАРУСЬ ПЯЦЬСОТ РУБЛЁЎ (Translation: Five Hundred Rubles, National Bank of the Republic of Belarus) |
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| Protection description | the National Bank of Belarus emblem visible when held to light; embedded security thread with microtext |
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Belarus redenominated its currency on 1 July 2016, replacing the old ruble at a rate of 10,000 to 1 — a conversion that wiped four zeros off every price tag and effectively acknowledged two decades of accumulated inflation following independence. This note belongs to that redenominated series, the first genuinely stable-feeling currency the country had issued since the Soviet collapse, though its exchange rate remained tightly managed by the Lukashenko government throughout.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement reflects a pattern common among post-Soviet states that lacked domestic high-security printing infrastructure capable of meeting modern standards. The security specification here is relatively modest for a high-denomination note.