3rd Centenary of the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk Ukraine

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3rd Centenary of the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk

The coin is dedicated to a monument of Ukrainian politico-legal thought of the XVIII-th century - Pacta et Constitutiones Legum Libertatumque Exercitus Zaporoviensis (Pacts and Constitutions of Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporizhian Host) known as well as the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk. It was the first European constitution of the modern type. It was adopted on April 5 (16), 1710, when electing Pylyp Orlyk as the Hetman of Ukraine.

Obverse:

On the coin obverse: above there are the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine and the semicircular legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine); beneath there are indicated the coin face value and mintage year 10 ГРИВЕНЬ/2010 (10 hryvnias). In the center there is depicted the conventionalized composition – the Cossack starshyna (senior officials) headed by the Hetman (to the left) and Cossacks (to the right), which symbolizes the approval of the Constitution.

Reverse:

On the coin reverse: there is a portrait of Pylyp Orlyk having a quill pen in hand against the background of a conventionalized sheet of the Constitution. To the left there are the inscriptions КОНСТИТУЦІЯ ПИЛИПА ОРЛИКА (Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk; semicircular) and 300/РОКІВ (300 years).

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