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2 Hryvni Mykola Kostomarov
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 2 Hryvni |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a stylized allegorical composition in the central field depicting a stack of books surmounted by a globe, set against a background of newspaper pages, evoking themes of scholarship and historical inquiry. To the right of the central composition appear the denomination and date in three lines: 2 / ГРИВНІ / 2017, accompanied by the mint mark of the NBU Banknote Printing and Minting Works. The upper portion of the field bears a semicircular legend reading УКРАЇНА, and beneath it the small State Coat of Arms of Ukraine (the trident). |
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| Mintage | 2017 - Special Uncirculated - 25,000 |
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Kostomarov spent years under close surveillance by the tsarist secret police following his arrest in 1847 as a founding member of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, a Ukrainian intellectual circle that advocated Slavic federalism and the abolition of serfdom. He was exiled to Saratov for a decade, barred from publishing, and prohibited from returning to Ukraine. His historical scholarship — particularly his argument that Ukrainians constituted a distinct people from Russians — made him politically radioactive to St. Petersburg for most of his working life. This coin was issued on the 200th anniversary of his birth.