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10 Hryven Ivan Sirko
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a dynamic battle scene enclosed within a beaded inner border, showing Cossack horsemen under the command of Ivan Sirko in pursuit of their enemies, set against a crescent moon in the background. Ivan Sirko is depicted on the right side, commanding his forces on horseback in a vigorous, martial composition. In the space between the beaded circle and the coin's edge, the Cyrillic inscription ІВАН СІРКО (Ivan Sirko) curves around the upper portion of the design. The year of Sirko's death, 1680, appears at the bottom of the coin outside the beaded border. |
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Ivan Sirko was the most celebrated koshovy otaman of the Zaporozhian Sich, elected to that position a remarkable fourteen times across the latter half of the seventeenth century. He led over sixty military campaigns without a single defeat by his own account — against Crimean Tatars, Ottoman forces, and Polish-Lithuanian armies alike — and became so feared that Crimean mothers allegedly invoked his name to frighten children. This coin belongs to Ukraine's "Hetmans of Ukraine" commemorative series, issued as the country was actively constructing a national historical narrative following independence.
Sirko never held the title of Hetman, which makes his inclusion in the series a deliberate editorial choice about who counts as a founding figure.