10 Hryven Cossack Regalia of Hryhory Loboda

Hryhory Loboda served as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host in the early 1590s and again briefly before his assassination in 1596 — killed not by Polish forces but by his own Cossack rivals during the Nalyvaiko Uprising, a moment of brutal internal fracture within the Host. His regalia, the ceremonial objects denoting his authority, became symbols of contested Cossack legitimacy precisely because leadership during this period was so violently disputed.

This issue is part of a multi-coin series on Cossack hetman regalia, sharing KM references across four variants struck in the same year.