Description

The 75th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Liberation

The coin commemorates the heroic deeds of the Ukrainian people in World War II, liberation of Ukraine from Nazi invaders in the fall of 1944, memories, and reconciliatoin of warriors who gave their lives for Ukraine.

Obverse features Ukraine`s small coat of arms, with vertical legends to the right: УКРАЇНА (Ukraine) and the year of mintage – 2019; against a smooth backdrop is a composition symbolizing the fight for liberation of the country – conventionalized images of a plane (above), sketched soldier defenders, guns, and an army tank; below, against the pictured hills, is the coin’s face value – 5/ГРИВЕНЬ (5 hryvnias), and the mint mark of the NBU’s Banknote Printing and Minting Works (to the left against a smooth backdrop).

Reverse: conventionalized red petals of a memorial poppy (based on the symbol to the memory of victims of war by S. Mishakin) are placed to the right, circling the legend: 1944 –/2019; to the left, against a relief background is a man’s profile (smooth) holding a child with a branch of laurel in his arms.