Coin Ukraine 2022 #18 Pavlo Hlazovyi

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Pavlo Hlazovyi

This coin celebrates Pavlo Hlazovyi, who was one of the most popular Ukrainian humorous poets. Hlazovyi was an honored artist of Ukraine, a recipient of Ostap Vyshnia Award in 1988, and the first recipient of Petro Sahaidachnyi Award in 1996. The humorist drew inspiration from the treasures of the living Ukrainian language, tapping real gems of folk wisdom as inexhaustible sources for his work. The satirist had a gentle and cheering sense of humor; his fables are witty and apt; a lot of his works resemble folk humor and put people in good spirits. The writer uses humor to express love for his native land, his people, and his affection for the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian art, lifting people’s spirits in the most difficult times. Hlazovyi’s works are also a window into the cheerful nature of the Ukrainian people.

Obverse: above, against a smooth background is the semicircular legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine), to the right of which are Ukraine’s small coat of arms and the coin’s issue year – 2022; in the center is the following composition: against the backdrop of a stylized open book is a rocking chair, above which the satirist’s muse flies; to the right are theatrical masks symbolizing the theater of life, the negative aspects of which the poet exposes and satirizes; beneath is the coin’s face value in the form of a semicircular legend 2 ГРИВНІ (two hryvnias); beneath, to the right is the mint mark of the NBU’s Banknote Printing and Minting Works.

Reverse: against the backdrop of a stylized book done in cartoon style is the humorist’s portrait; the portrait is surrounded by the following legends: УСМІШКИ (jokes) (vertically, to the left), БАЙКИ (fables) (vertically, to the right) and ГУМОРЕСКИ (humor pieces) (under the portrait); to the left and right, against a smooth background, are the images of characters from Hlazovyi’s humor pieces; beneath are his years of birth and death – 1922 2004, and the semicircular legend ПАВЛО ГЛАЗОВИЙ (Pavlo Hlazovyi).