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2 Hryvni Ascania Nova
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a central composition depicting a stone steppe idol (babas) alongside a dynamic grouping of animals native to the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve. The circumferential legend АСКАНІЯ-НОВА arcs above the central design along the upper rim. In the lower portion of the composition, the heraldic emblem of the Falz-Fain family is prominently displayed, accompanied by the inscription 100 РОКІВ along the lower circumference, commemorating the reserve's centenary. The design blends historical and naturalistic iconography in a unified artistic composition. |
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Issued to commemorate the Askania-Nova biosphere reserve in southern Ukraine's Kherson Oblast, one of the world's oldest and largest fenced natural steppes — protected since 1898, exactly a century before this coin's release. Founded by Friedrich von Falz-Fein, a German-Ukrainian landowner who began preserving the virgin steppe on his family estate in the 1880s, the reserve survived Soviet collectivization largely intact, though Falz-Fein himself died in exile in Monaco in 1920 having never recovered the property.