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10 Hryven Surb Khach Monastery
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | At the upper periphery, the circular legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine) is inscribed in Cyrillic. The central field features a finely detailed khachkar (Armenian cross-stone) from the monastery grounds, its face ornamented with intricate interlaced vegetal scrollwork in relief. The Small State Emblem of Ukraine (trident) is positioned in the upper field above the cross-stone. Below the khachkar, the date 2009 and the denomination ДЕСЯТЬ ГРИВЕНЬ (Ten Hryvnias) appear in the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ 2009 ДЕСЯТЬ ГРИВЕНЬ |
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The Surb Khach monastery, built by Crimean Armenians in the fourteenth century near the town of Stary Krym, was one of the most important pilgrimage sites in the medieval Black Sea region. Armenian merchants and clergy maintained it through centuries of Ottoman rule, a period during which the broader Armenian community in Crimea quietly sustained cultural institutions that would have otherwise collapsed. Ukraine's commemorative program for religious and architectural monuments accelerated sharply after 2000, partly as a deliberate policy of acknowledging the peninsula's pre-Slavic heritage — a political gesture that carried different weight after 2014.