500 Rublei, National Bank of Belarus, series 2000
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00614
- Serial
- Лэ 2908946
- Series year
- 2000
- Actually issued
- 2000
- Signatures
- This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
- Grade
- UNC (IBNS)
Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.
- Dimensions
- 150.1 × 74.8 mm (±0.7, from the scan)
- Themes
- ModernBelarusArchitecture
The type
- Type
- 500 Rublei, National Bank of Belarus, series 2000
- Printer
- Goznak, Moscow
- Rarity
- common
Symbology
- Palace of Culture of the Trade Unions
- The Republican Palace of Culture of the Trade Unions in Minsk, a colonnaded post-war civic building on the capital's central square.
- Pedimental sculptural group
- The allegorical figures carved on the building's pediment, personifying labour and the arts.
- Palace facade detail
- A close view of the colonnade and entablature on the reverse, reinforcing the architectural theme.
What was happening
This 500-rouble note is one of the architecture-themed family that Belarus issued dated "2000," the series that followed the redenomination striking three zeros from the hyperinflated rouble. Like its fellows it names no person, taking its imagery instead from a landmark of the capital.
The face shows the Republican Palace of Culture of the Trade Unions in Minsk, a grand colonnaded post-war building on the city's central square, crowned by a pedimental sculptural group of allegorical figures representing labour and the arts. The back carries a detail of the building's facade, keeping the whole note within a single monumental subject.
Printed by Goznak in Moscow and secured with a windowed thread, the note bears no officials' signatures. It remained in use through the 2000s until the 2016 redenomination retired the 2000 series; the denomination was formally demonetised in the following years.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 500 Rublei, National Bank of Belarus, series 2000 in the collection.
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