Description

Cartwright
Стельмах

The commemorative coin is dedicated to the profession of a woodcraftsman occupied in production of wheels, sledges, carts, shaft bows, etc. The craft has been known in Ukraine since a great while ago and was among the most widespread ones.

On the obverse above there are the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine and the conventionalized legend: НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine) thereunder; in the centre there are depicted in a conventionalized manner two cockerels and (to the right and left of them) products of the cartwright craft – carts, yokes, wheels, sledges, yoke locking pins. The ornamental central part of the obverse contains the following legend: 5/ГРИВЕНЬ/2009 (5 hryvnias) (on the German silver one).

On the reverse there is depicted a woodcraftsman hewing wood to make a cart detail. Above, against the background of a conventionalized board, there is the legend СТЕЛЬМАХ (Cartwright). To the left and right of the central composition there are ornamental patterns.