Description

Hopak

The commemorative coin is dedicated to the Hopak, a Ukrainian folk dance, the performance whereof includes various steps of choreographic improvisation. The dance may be solitary, couple or group one. The Hopak quite often happens to be of a majestic, heroic character.

Obverse: there are the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine and the semicircular description НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine), a couple caught up in the stylized swirl of a dance and the following legends beneath: П`ЯТЬ ГРИВЕНЬ (5 hryvnias) as well as the issue year – 2011 (to the right). On the 5 hryvnia coin there is the logo of the National Bank of Ukraine Mint.

Reverse: there is depicted a dancing Cossack with a sable to whose left there is stylized ornament.