BELARUS 1 ruble 2001 bison

Description

From the 1990s to the 2000s various countries thought it was a reasonable idea to make some money by creating nice looking commemorative coins to sell to collectors

Belarus (“White Russia,” pronounced Byelaroos), in eastern Eastern Europe, has borders with Russie, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine. The language is different from “Great” Russian. Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union is had been governed by neighboring foreign powers. Since it emerged as its own country it briefly tried free enterprise before becoming an oligarchic dictatorship.

The political arrangements that resulted in the nations of modern Europe began to emerge out of anarchy starting in the 7th century AD or so. Europe, for our purposes stretches from Greenland to somewhere in Russia. Collectors of Europe would likely include Russia. Collectors of Asia, even though about 2/3 of Russia is in Asia, probably not.

By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.