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10 Hryven Pectoral
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a stylized three-tier compositional fragment of the famous Scythian Golden Pectoral, rendered with selective local gilding to highlight its ornate decorative elements against the coin's silver surface. The uppermost tier features floral and zoomorphic motifs characteristic of Scythian goldsmithing, while the lower tiers display the iconic figurative and animal combat scenes for which the original artifact is renowned. Below the pectoral imagery, against a matte background symbolizing the earth, three semicircular legends arranged concentrically read СКІФСЬКА / ЗОЛОТА ПЕКТОРАЛЬ / КУРГАН ТОВСТА МОГИЛА, identifying the depicted artifact and its archaeological provenance. |
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The pectoral referenced here is the Scythian gold pectoral excavated in 1971 from the Tovsta Mohyla burial mound in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast — one of the most significant archaeological finds of the Soviet period, now housed in the National Museum of the History of Ukraine. Ukraine has returned to it repeatedly for coin subjects, and this 2019 silver issue with selective gilding is among the more technically considered treatments: the gilding isolates specific registers of the original ornament rather than flooding the surface.