10 Hryven Danylo of Halych

Danylo Romanovych — known to history as Danylo of Halych — unified the fragmented Rus' principalities of Galicia and Volhynia in the 13th century and was crowned King of Ruthenia in 1253 by a papal legate, the only Rus' ruler ever to accept a Latin crown. The coronation was part of a never-realized alliance with Rome against the Mongol Golden Horde, whose overlordship Danylo spent his reign strategically resisting and ultimately could not escape.

This 1998 issue belongs to Ukraine's early commemorative silver program, launched as the hryvnia itself was only just introduced — the currency had been in circulation barely two years when this coin was struck.