Description

Smith

The commemorative coin is dedicated to the smithcraft, i.e. treatment of iron by the hot forging techniques. As early as in the Xth-XIIth centuries the skills of smiths reached such a high level that some of the iron treatment methods and processes for manufacture of tools and household goods have remained practically unchanged to this day.

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 little birds and (to the left and right of them) different smithcraft products – Old Rus arms and household stuff; below there is the legend: 5/ГРИВЕНЬ/2011 (5 hryvnias) (on the German silver one) together with the National Bank of Ukraine Mint logo.

Reverse: on both coins there is depicted a smith at work. Above, there is the legend КОВАЛЬ (smith). To the left and right of the central composition there are ornamental patterns.