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2 Hryvni Mykhailo Verbytskyi
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Hryvnia (1996-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | УКРАЇНА ЩЕ НЕ ВМЕРЛА УКРАЇНИ / І СЛАВА, І ВОЛЯ, / ЩЕ НАМ, БРАТТЯ/МОЛОДІЇ, / УСМІХНЕТЬСЯ / ДОЛЯ 2 ГРИВНІ 2015 (Translation: Ukraine has not yet perished, nor has her glory, nor her freedom. Upon us, young brothers, fate shall yet smile. 2 hryvnias) |
| Reverse description | The reverse features a finely detailed portrait bust of Ukrainian composer Mykhailo Verbytskyi facing slightly left, wearing spectacles and period attire with an embroidered collar. To the left of the portrait, a decorative lyre entwined with acanthus scrollwork symbolises his musical legacy, while a flowing staff of musical notation curves across the lower field beneath the bust. The birth and death years 1815 and 1870 are inscribed to either side of the portrait at mid-field. The name МИХАЙЛО ВЕРБИЦЬКИЙ is rendered in cursive Cyrillic script along the lower rim, with additional foliate ornament to the right. |
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Mykhailo Verbytskyi composed the melody that became the Ukrainian national anthem, "Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy," in 1863 — yet spent most of his life as a Greek Catholic priest in Galicia, then under Austrian rule, and died in 1870 with no indication his tune would outlive an empire. The anthem's official adoption by independent Ukraine in 1992 brought Verbytskyi a posthumous prominence that his own lifetime never afforded him.
This circulation commemorative was part of Ukraine's long-running "Видатні особистості України" (Outstanding Personalities of Ukraine) series, which repurposed the bimetallic 2 hryvni format for portrait issues through the 2000s and 2010s.