2 Hryvni Integrity

Issued the same year Ukraine adopted its first peacetime constitution-era budget without IMF emergency support, this coin commemorates national integrity as a civic concept at a moment when the term carried genuine political weight — the late 1990s saw repeated corruption scandals reach the highest levels of the Kuchma administration. The National Bank's commemorative program in this period was notably prolific, producing themed issues faster than public demand could absorb them, which left many specimens in mint state simply because dealers couldn't move them.