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Putting into circulation :
25 October 2011
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Technical Specifications
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Weight of pure precious metals, gramme |
Diameter, mm |
Quality class of coinage |
Edge |
Mintage, pcs |
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5
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silver (Ag 925)
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15.55 |
33
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proof
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smooth with in-depth legends |
5000 |
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Series:
Outstanding Personalities of Ukraine
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The coin is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of birth of Dniprova Chaika (the pen name of Liudmyla Oleksiivna Vasylevska meaning the Gull of the Dnieper). She wrote quite a lot of short stories and poems as well as librettos of many children`s operas set to music by M.Lysenko, including such as `Koza-Dereza` (Naughty Little Goat), `Pan Kotskyi` (Skilful Puss), `Winter and Spring`.
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Price, Hryvnas: 394
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Obverse: above there is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine); lower there is a conventionalized composition symbolizing Dniprova Chaika`s creative work and representing a girl near the sea; below there is the legend indicating the coin face value and issue year П`ЯТЬ ГРИВЕНЬ /2011 (five hryvnias / 2011). |
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Reverse: against the dark background there are a portrait of the authoress and the inscription ЛЮДМИЛА ВАСИЛЕВСЬКА (Liudmyla Vasylevska) to the left as an arch; under the portrait there are the legends ДНІПРОВА / ЧАЙКА (Dniprova / Chaika) and 1861/1927 (her life years); to the right against the light background there are the lines from Dniprova Chaika`s verse `The Star` `…Тої зірки, / того світу / Повік не забуду!` (That star, / that light / (I shall) never forget) together with the conventionalized image of the gull thereunder. |
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Designer:
Volodymyr Taran,
Oleksandr Kharuk,
Serhii Kharuk
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Engraver:
Anatolii Demianenko,
Sviatoslav Ivanenko
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