Description

Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service

This coin celebrates Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service – a special-purpose law enforcement body charged with ensuring the inviolability of the state border and protecting Ukraine’s sovereign rights to its contiguous and exclusive economic zones. Among other things, the State Border Guard Service must, together with Ukraine’s armed forces and other army units, fend off invasions into, or attacks on, the territory of Ukraine by the armed forces of another country, or by a group of countries.

Obverse above is Ukraine`s small coat of arms, below which is the legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine); in the center is the emblem of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service; beneath is the legend 10/ГРИВЕНЬ/2020 (10/hryvnias/2020); to the right is a stylized laurel branch, with a stylized guelder-rose branch on the left; beneath, to the left is the mint mark of the NBU Banknote Printing and Minting Works.

Reverse: above is the legend ДЕРЖАВНА/ПРИКОРДОННА/СЛУЖБА УКРАЇНИ (Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service), below which is an outline of a map of Ukraine; beneath is a symbolic border marker; to the right and left are compositions that symbolize the activities of the State Border Guard Service in the air, on land and at sea.