At the top is Ukraine’s small coat of arms surrounded by the legend saying НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ (National) (to the left), БАНК УКРАЇНИ (Bank of Ukraine) (to the right); a stylized composition is in the center, against the smooth background, depicting a helicoid (a screw surface) in the background and a polygonal approximation of a curve and the coin’s face value 2 in the foreground; text ГРИВНІ (hryvnias) is at the bottom; the year the coin was minted 2019 is to the left; the mint mark of the NBU’s Banknote Printing and Minting Works is to the right.
Obverse script
Cyrillic
Obverse lettering
НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ
2019
2
ГРИВНІ
Reverse description
A portrait of Oleksii Pohorielov is set against the smooth background; to its left is an abstract shape that symbolizes the mathematician’s topological research in geometry.
Reverse script
Cyrillic
Reverse lettering
ОЛЕКСІЙ
ПОГОРЄЛОВ
1919 – 2002
Edge
Reeded
Mint
National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works, Kyiv, Ukraine (1998-date)