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Gold 100 Hryvnias coin.
COMMEMORATIVE GOLD 100 HRYVNIAS COIN ISSUED IN 2009.
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Denomination: 100 Hrivnias
Year: 2009
Material: Gold
Description: Commemorative coin 'Chersonesos Taurica'. 'Ancient sights' series. The coin is dedicated to the ancient monument – Chersonesos Taurica (peninsula of the Tauri in Greek), a city-state on the south-western coast of Crimea established in 422 – 421 B.C. which struck own coins. The history of Chersonesos Taurica is subdivided into two periods: the antique (from the foundation to the 4th century A.D.) and the medieval one (5th-15th centuries). During two millennia, in the period of prosperity of ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium, Chersonesos was an important commercial and cultural centre on the Crimean peninsula playing a special role in the mutual relations of Byzantium and Kyiv Rus.
Obverse: Above there are the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine, the semicircular inscription НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine), beneath – the coin face value 100 / ГРИВЕНЬ (100 HRYVNIAS), indication of the metal and its fineness, weight in fineness and the coin issue year 2009 to the right, in the coin centre, above, there are depicted a fragment of an ancient structure and the signal bell tower, below, against the background of the meander, there are ancient coins of Chersonesos and a lamp (5th-6th centuries A.D.).
Reverse: In the foreground there are depicted the ruins of an ancient structure of Chersonesos, a basilica; in the background there is Saint Prince Volodymyr Cathedral built in the middle of the 19th century on the ruins of a medieval temple where the Prince Volodymyr is supposed to have been baptized; above there is the semicircular legend: ХЕРСОНЕС ТАВРІЙСЬКИЙ (CHERSONESOS TAURICA).
900 standard gold. Weight – 31.1 g., diameter – 32.0 mm., edge – sector incised. Artist and sculptor: Vladymyr Demianenko.
Put in circulation since July 28, 2009. Mintage: 3 000. The coin was struck at the National Bank of Ukraine Mint.
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Country or town: Ukraine
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