Ukraine's commemorative program for the Sydney Games was ambitious for a country barely nine years removed from Soviet dissolution, with the National Bank issuing a sprawling series of sport-themed bimetallic and base-metal pieces in 2000. The sailing issue is among the more common survivors of that run, struck in sufficient quantities to appear regularly in dealer stocks across Eastern Europe.
Ukraine's commemorative program for the Sydney Games was ambitious for a country barely nine years removed from Soviet dissolution, with the National Bank issuing a sprawling series of sport-themed bimetallic and base-metal pieces in 2000. The sailing issue is among the more common survivors of that run, struck in sufficient quantities to appear regularly in dealer stocks across Eastern Europe.