Garden Dormouse (ELIOMYS QUERCINUS)
Garden Dormouse (ELIOMYS QUERCINUS)
Wednesday, 15 December 1999
Rating: 12,8 grivnas
metall: nickel silver
circulation: 50000
diametr: 31 mm
The weight: 12,8 grams
herd: corrugated
series: Flora and Fauna
category: ordinary
NBU Price: 2
Commemorative coin is dedicated to the only species of dormouse (Eliomys Quercinus) in the fauna of Ukraine, which is occasionally met in pine and deciduous forests of plains, mountains and in the gardens Woodlands and Forest-steppes (Rivno, Kyiv and Cherkasy regions)
On the coin obverse set in the wreath made of images of plants and animals there is engraved the small National Emblem of Ukraine and a four line legend
On the coin reverse there is a picture of a garden dormouse sitting on a raspberry twig and the circular legend: СОНЯ САДОВА (Garden Dormouse) and ELIOMYS QUERCINUS
artist: Volodymyr Demianenko
sculptor: Volodymyr Demianenko