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2 Hryvni Ostap Vyshnia
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine appears at the top of the obverse, accompanied by a semicircular legend reading НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine). The central field features a thematic composition referencing Ostap Vyshnia's celebrated humorous story 'Cherry Smiles,' depicting a shotgun loaded with two cherries alongside a hat brimming with cherries. The mint mark of the National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works is positioned to the left of the central design, with the issue year 2014 to the right. The face value ДВІ ГРИВНІ (Two Hryvnias) is inscribed along the lower portion of the field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Ostap Vyshnia — the pen name of Pavlo Hubenko — was the most widely read Ukrainian satirist of the Soviet period, with print runs in the 1920s reportedly reaching into the millions. The Soviet authorities arrested him in 1933 during Stalin's purge of Ukrainian cultural figures, and he spent nearly a decade in the Gulag before returning to publish again under strict ideological constraints. This coin was issued the same year Russia annexed Crimea and armed conflict began in the Donbas — a period of sharp renewed interest in distinctly Ukrainian cultural identity.