Description

Kyiv Fortress

This coin celebrates one of the world’s largest stone and earth fortresses that survives to this day – unique defensive fortifications that were built over many centuries. Kyiv Fortress National Historical and Archeological Museum is a unique historic site, featuring many constructions related to liberation movements in Ukraine.

Obverse: above, against the backdrop of a stylized composition depicting a fragment of the fortress’s arched entryway is Ukraine`s small coat of arms, below which is the legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine); beneath, against a smooth background, is a key, under which is the following legend: 5/ГРИВЕНЬ/2021 (5/hryvnias/2021); to the right of the key is the mint mark of the NBU’s Banknote Printing and Minting Works.

Reverse: there is the following composition: a bird’s eye view of Kyiv Fortress, to the right of which is a map of the fortifications; beneath are the following legends: КИЇВСЬКА (Kyiv) (against a smooth background) and ФОРТЕЦЯ/XVIII–XIX ст. (fortress/the 18th to the 19th centuries) (against the backdrop of the outline of fortress merlons).