Above there are the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine and the conventionalized semicircular legend: НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine) with the coin issue year indication 2012 thereunder; against the background of the conventionalized map there are depicted the wind rose as a symbol of sea voyages (to the left) and an ancient coin of the Bosporan Kingdom (to the right); below there are the meander and the coin face value: 10/ГРИВЕНЬ (10/hryvnias)
Obverse script
Cyrillic
Obverse lettering
НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ
2012
10
ГРИВЕНЬ
Reverse description
To the left there is a conventionalized image of the prora, i.e. the ship bow, often depicted on the ancient Greek and Roman coins as a seafaring symbol; to the right above there is depicted an ancient sailing ship and below, on the wide meander, there is the conventionalized inscription АНТИЧНЕ/СУДНОПЛАВСТВО (Antiquity/navigation).
