2006 Belarus The Thousand and One Nights .925 Silver Coin 20 Roubles

Description

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