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10 Hryven St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided diagonally into two distinct zones. The left half features a vivid color-printed reproduction of Mikhail Vrubel's celebrated fresco of the Angel, depicted in full figure with outstretched multicolored wings and a golden halo, rendered in polychrome enamel-style printing against a blue field. The right half, executed in mirror-polished and frosted silver relief, portrays a saintly figure in Byzantine imperial vestments standing within an ornate arched niche, with a Cyrillic devotional inscription along the arch. At upper center, the Cyrillic legend УКРАЇНА appears above the Ukrainian trident coat of arms, with a small star to its right; the denomination 10 and the hryvnia symbol, together with the year 2023, are inscribed at lower center on a stylized architectural pillar base. |
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| Obverse lettering | УКРАЇНА 10 ₴ 2023 |
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St. Volodymyr's Cathedral was not a medieval foundation but a 19th-century nationalist project, consecrated in 1896 after four decades of interrupted construction — funding disputes and structural failures delayed it repeatedly. The timing was deliberate: the cathedral was conceived as a visual declaration of Ukrainian Orthodox identity at a moment when Kyiv was firmly under Russian imperial administration.
This 2023 issue enters a series the National Bank of Ukraine has sustained through active wartime minting, with architectural subjects chosen in part as a form of cultural documentation.