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10 Hryven Volodymyr the Great
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a portrait of Prince Volodymyr the Great in the foreground, rendered in a stylized manner against a background scene illustrating his baptism. The dates 978 and 1015, marking the years of his reign, flank the inscription ВОЛОДИМИР above, while the inscription КНЯЖА УКРАЇНА appears below, referencing the Princely Rus state. The composition blends portraiture with a narrative historical scene in a medallic artistic style. |
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| Reverse lettering | 978 ВОЛОДИМИР 1015 КНЯЖА УКРАЇНА |
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Issued to mark the 1000th anniversary of the death of Volodymyr the Great, the Kyivan Rus prince who in 988 ordered the mass baptism of his subjects in the Dnipro River — a forced Christianization that defined the religious and cultural trajectory of the region for the next millennium. The timing of this coin's release, a decade into Ukrainian independence, was hardly accidental; Volodymyr had become a loaded political symbol, claimed simultaneously by Ukrainian and Russian national narratives.
The Zahreba reference places this within Ukraine's early commemorative silver program, where inconsistent planchet preparation occasionally produced surface granularity on otherwise proof-quality strikes.