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10 Hryven Galagan Family
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 10 Hryven |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine positioned at the upper field, flanked by a semicircular legend reading НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine). The central field displays a detailed architectural rendering of the Galagan family estate at Sokyryntsi. In the lower portion of the field, the denomination and date are inscribed in three lines: 10 / ГРИВЕНЬ / 2009. |
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| Obverse lettering | НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ 10 ГРИВЕНЬ 2009 |
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The Galagan family were Ukrainian Cossack starshyna — the officer-administrative class that emerged from the Hetmanate — who accumulated significant landholdings in the Pryluky region of Left-Bank Ukraine during the 18th century. Hryhoriy Galagan, the family's most prominent figure in the 19th century, was a noted patron of Ukrainian cultural life and a collector whose ethnographic work contributed directly to early documentation of folk traditions before Imperial Russian censorship under the Ems Decree made such activity politically dangerous.
This coin belongs to Ukraine's long-running series commemorating historic families of the Cossack nobility, issued in the years following independence as a deliberate rehabilitation of figures suppressed under Soviet historiography.