Dniprova Chaika (silver)
Dniprova Chaika (silver)
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Rating: 5 grivnas
metall: silver (Ag 925)
circulation: 5000
diametr: 33 mm
The weight: 15,55 grams
herd: corrugated
series: Outstanding Personalities of Ukraine
category: proof
NBU Price: 359
The coin is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of birth of Dniprova Chaika (the pen name of Liudmyla Oleksiivna Vasylevska meaning the Gull of the Dnieper). She wrote quite a lot of short stories and poems as well as librettos of many children`s operas set to music by M.Lysenko, including such as `Koza-Dereza` (Naughty Little Goat), `Pan Kotskyi` (Skilful Puss), `Winter and Spring`.
Obverse: above there is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine); lower there is a conventionalized composition symbolizing Dniprova Chaika`s creative work and representing a girl
Reverse: against the dark background there are a portrait of the authoress and the inscription ЛЮДМИЛА ВАСИЛЕВСЬКА (Liudmyla Vasylevska) to the left as an arch; under the portrait there are the legends ДНІПРОВА / ЧАЙКА (Dniprova / Chaika) and 1861/1927 (h
artist: Volodymyr Taran, Oleksandr Kharuk, Serhii Kharuk
sculptor: Anatolii Demianenko, Sviatoslav Ivanenko