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Ukrainian Pysanka
The commemorative coin is dedicated to pysanka-making art (Easter egg decoration) being a striking example of creative work in Ukrainian traditional art and having peculiar ornamentation patterns and scales of colours in each ethnographic region of Ukraine. Issued into circulation on April 16, 2009.
Obverse:
On the coin obverse there are the Small National Emblem of Ukraine and semicircular inscription НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine), below against the background of rushnyky (Ukrainian embroidered towels) there is the composition of a dish with the pysanky decorated with vegetational and geometrical ornamentation patterns peculiar to different regions of Ukraine; below there is the legend 20/ГРИВЕНЬ/2009 (20 hryvnias).
Reverse:
On the coin reverse the coin circumference is decorated with a pysanka-like ornamentation pattern whose inner contour line forms the egg in the middle whereof there is a composition – a woman (pysanka maker) ornamenting an egg and a sitting girl observing her; on the ornamental circumference there are the legends: УКРАЇНСЬКА (Ukrainian) on the left and ПИСАНКА (pysanka).
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Country:
Ukraine
Catalog ID:
UA458CM1
Value:
€90
Mintage:
8000
Quality:
Proof
Face value:
20 hryvnen
Purity:
0.925
Weight:
31.1g
Diameter:
38.61mm
Year:
2009
Type:
Commemorative coin
Shape and style:
Round
Edge:
Lettered
Edge Lettering:
Ag 925, 62.2 g and the National Bank of Ukraine Mint logotype
Source of information:
National Bank of Ukraine www.bank.gov.ua