Description

Lyre
Ліра

The coin is dedicated to an ancient musical instrument which has been popular in Ukraine since 15th-16th centuries. Lyre is a string-keyboard and bow folk musical instrument.

On the coin obverse its horizontal surface symbolically represents lyre strings tuning a melody like a conventionalized baroque ornamental pattern. Above there is depicted the small National Emblem of Ukraine and `Ukraine` inscription made to look like the Cossack script; beneath – 5 ГРИВЕНЬ (5/ hryvnia), 2004 (right) and the NBU Mint logotype.

On the coin reverse a lyre is depicted, around its circumference there is a baroque ornament and ЛІРА (Lyre) inscription made to look like the Cossack script.