The Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine (above), the semicircular legend: НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine), the coin face value and issue year 10/ГРИВЕНЬ/2009 (10 hryvnias) below, and in the center - a dance scene against the dark background with conventionalized picture of light beams.
Obverse script
Cyrillic
Obverse lettering
НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ
10 ГРИВЕНЬ
2009
Reverse description
There is depicted the theatre building facade together with silhouettes of operetta characters copied from old theatre bills (over the building) and the inscriptions КИЇВСЬКИЙ АКАДЕМІЧНИЙ ТЕАТР ОПЕРЕТИ (Kyiv academic theatre of operetta) (above, semicircular) and 75/РОКІВ (75/years) underneath.