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10 Hryven European Bison
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | ЗУБР BISON BONASUS |
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Issued under Ukraine's ongoing wildlife conservation coin program, this piece commemorates the European bison — a species that was declared extinct in the wild in 1927 following centuries of hunting and habitat loss. Captive breeding programs, largely centered on the Białowieża Forest straddling the Polish-Belarusian border, brought the animal back from complete extinction; wild populations were re-established beginning in 1952.
Ukraine's Carpathian region hosts one of the reintroduced herds descended from that recovery effort.