10 Hryven Smith

Issued as part of Ukraine's long-running "Professions of Ukraine" commemorative series, this piece honors the blacksmithing trade at a moment when the National Bank was actively using the silver commemorative program to document traditional crafts facing industrial obsolescence. Ukraine's smithing heritage runs deep through the Cossack period, when weaponsmiths and horseshoers were essential to the Zaporozhian Host's military operations.

KM#616 is a low-mintage issue; the NBU typically capped this series at 10,000 pieces.