Ukraine 5 Hryven, 2009

5 Hryven from Ukraine. Issued in 2009. Struck in Silver (.925). Measures 33 mm and weighs 16.94 g.

Obverse

There is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine); below there is the coin face value 5 ГРИВЕНЬ (5 hryvnias), and in the centre - the conventionalized composition representing Aeneas, a boat, a fragment of a column from Troy and an helmet with the coin issue year indication 2009 thereunder.

Reverse

There is a portrait of Ivan Kotliarevskyi; to the left and right thereof there are lines from T.Shevchenko's poem "To Kotliarevskyi's Imperishable Memory" ...Поки сонце з неба сяє, Тебе не забудуть! (While the sun in the sky shines, You will not be forgotten!) and semicircular inscriptions ІВАН КОТЛЯРЕВСЬКИЙ (Ivan Kotliarevskyi) above and 1769-1838 (years of his life) below.

Edge

Smooth with in-depth legends