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2 Hryvni Ivan Piddubnyi
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Composition | Nickel brass (German silver) |
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| Obverse description | At the upper portion of the field, the legend УКРАЇНА / 2021 (Ukraine / 2021) is inscribed, below which the small State Coat of Arms of Ukraine is displayed. The central composition features a stylized medal suspended on a ribbon arranged in the form of a globe, encircled by the semicircular legends УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ БОГАТИР (Ukrainian Strongman) above and ЧЕМПІОН ЧЕМПІОНІВ (Champion of Champions) below the globe. The denomination 2 / ГРИВНІ (2 Hryvnias) appears beneath the central composition against a smooth field, flanked on either side by stylized wrestling scenes in relief. The mint mark of the NBU Banknote Printing and Minting Works is positioned to the lower right of the central design. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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Ivan Piddubnyi — known in the West as Ivan Poddubny — was a Ukrainian-born wrestler who won the world professional wrestling championship six times between 1905 and 1909, competing primarily in France and across Europe. Born in Poltava region in 1871, he became so dominant that promoters reportedly struggled to find opponents willing to face him. He died in Soviet Krasnodar in 1949, officially impoverished, having refused multiple times to emigrate despite foreign offers.
Ukraine has reclaimed him firmly as a national figure since independence, this coin following an earlier 2005 commemorative issued on the centenary of his first world title.