Year of the Goat (silver)
Year of the Goat (silver)
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Rating: 5 grivnas
metall: silver (Ag 925)
circulation: 20000
diametr: 33 mm
The weight: 15,55 grams
herd: corrugated
series: Oriental calendar
category: proof
NBU Price: 359
The commemorative coin is dedicated to the Year of the Goat according to a calendar of Chinese origin, which is based on the twelve-year orbit of Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System.
Obverse: above there is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the inscription НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК/ УКРАЇНИ (National Bank/of Ukraine) thereunder; in the centre, within a conventionalized vegetable ornamentation pattern, there is the coin face value 5/ ГРИВ
Reverse: within a conventionalized vegetable ornamentation pattern there is depicted in a technique of a cheap popular print a goat (the goat`s eye is represented by a blue cubic zirconium oxide of 1.25 mm diameter). Both above and below this composition there is a depiction of contour figures of all 12 symbols of the Oriental calendar.
artist: Volodymyr Taran
sculptor: Volodymyr Atamanchuk