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| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | At center, a chestnut inflorescence is depicted against a background panorama of the Kyiv cityscape occupying the right portion of the field. At upper center, the small National Emblem of Ukraine (trident) appears, below which the legend УКРАЇНА arcs across the upper field. To the left, against a smooth field, the inscription НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК is arranged vertically, accompanied by the issue year 2006. The denomination ДВІ ГРИВНІ is inscribed in the lower field, and the logotype of the Mint of the National Bank of Ukraine appears on the coin's surface. |
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| Obverse lettering | НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНА ДВІ ГРИВНІ 2006 |
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Dmytro Lutsenko (1821–1879) was a Ukrainian poet and ethnographer whose work documenting folk songs and oral traditions placed him within the broader national cultural revival that Ukrainian intellectuals pursued under Russian imperial censorship — a movement the tsarist authorities increasingly suppressed following the Ems Decree of 1876, which banned Ukrainian-language publishing outright. This coin was issued three decades after Ukrainian independence, as the National Bank worked through an extensive commemorative program honoring figures who had been systematically erased or marginalized during the Soviet period.