The National Bank of Ukraine issued 2 new investment coins:

10 hryven coin, metal - gold, purity 0.9999, weight 15.55, diameter 25 mm, uncirculated quality, edge reeded and plain sections. Mintagage 2 500 pcs.
2 hryven coin, metal - gold, purity 0.9999, weight 3.11 g, diameter 16 mm, uncirculated quality, edge reeded and plain sections. Mintagage 6 000 pcs.

Obverse: above there are the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular inscription НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine), in the centre of the coin framed with an octagonal cartouche there is a shield with the emblem of the National Bank of Ukraine thereon – allegorical figures of griffins with the hryvnia (monetary-weight unit of Kyivan Rus’) placed between them. This emblem symbolizes safeguarding and augmentation of the country’s gold reserves. On the coin obverse there are indicated the coin face value, coin issue year, as well as the indications of the metal and its fineness and coin weight in fineness.

Reverse: there is depicted the Taxiarch Archangel Michael (Orthodoxy accords him the title "Archistrategos"), one of the most honorable Bible characters well-known for winning a victory over evil and being a patron of warriors, the sick and the suffering; there is a circular inscription: …ЗА НАС І ДУШІ ПРАВЕДНИХ, І СИЛА АРХІСТРАТИГА МИХАЇЛА/ FOR US AND SOLES OF RIGHTEOUS MEN, AND ARCHISTRATEGOS MICHAEL’S STRENGTH (lines from T. Shevchenko’s "Haydamaks").

The prices for investment coins " Archangel Michael” are set on the day of the sale on the basis of the official (accounting) exchange rate of banking metals set by the National Bank of Ukraine and premium to the value of the banking metal.

Source of information: National Bank of Ukraine www.bank.gov.ua