Ukraine's first post-Soviet coinage was struck in 1992 under emergency contract at the Italian Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome, which accounts for the absent mintmark — these were not produced at a domestic facility. The six-berry variety versus four-berry distinction on this denomination arose from minor hub differences between working dies prepared at the Italian facility, an unplanned variation that became the primary cataloguing split for the type.
Ukraine's first post-Soviet coinage was struck in 1992 under emergency contract at the Italian Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome, which accounts for the absent mintmark — these were not produced at a domestic facility. The six-berry variety versus four-berry distinction on this denomination arose from minor hub differences between working dies prepared at the Italian facility, an unplanned variation that became the primary cataloguing split for the type.