10 Hryven 10 Years of the National Bank of Ukraine

Issued in 2001 to mark a decade since the National Bank of Ukraine was established following the country's independence declaration of August 1991. The NBU itself only began issuing the hryvnia as a permanent currency in September 1996, replacing the interim karbovanets — which had hemorrhaged value catastrophically through the early 1990s hyperinflation. This coin commemorates the institution that managed that difficult transition.