Ukraine 50 Hryven, 2010

50 Hryven from Ukraine. Issued in 2010. Struck in Gold plated silver (.999). Measures 85 mm and weighs 500 g.

Obverse

Above there is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular inscription НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine); in the center there is depicted a fragment of the National Historico-Cultural Heritage Site "Zaporizka Sich"; in the foreground there is a gilded composition representing a bandura and Cossacks' weapons and power insignia, to the left whereof there is the coin face value 50/ГРИВЕНЬ (50 hryvnias) and to the right the issue year 2010.

Reverse

Against the background of ornamental stripe there is depicted the dovbysh (Cossack drummer) beating the kettledrum used among the Cossacks at the time of celebrations and big events in Cossacks' life; to the right there are the lines of Taras Shevchenko's poem "І мертвим, і живим..." ("To the Dead and the Living..."): У нас воля виростала / Дніпром умивалась, / У голови гори слала, / Степом укривалась! / ТАРАС ШЕВЧЕНКО (The liberty grew up among us / Washing itself in the Dnieper water, / The mountains pillowed its head, / And it covered itself with the steppe! / TARAS SHEVCHENKO); over the stripe there is a conventionalized image of the island with the inscription Острів Хортиця на Дніпрі - колиска українського козацтва (Island of Khortytsia in the Dnieper - the cradle of Ukrainian Cossacks); below the image, to the right, there is the legend ЗАПОРІЖЖЯ / XVI-XVIII ст. (ZAPORIZHIA / XVI-XVIII cent.).

Edge

Smooth with in-depth legends