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2 Hryvni The Goddess Api
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 2 Hryvni |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a stylised high-relief representation of Api, the Scythian earth goddess, rendered in the manner of an ancient Scythian gold ornament. The goddess is shown facing, her upper body frontal with arms raised and outstretched, each terminating in large voluted wings with finely engraved feather details rendered in the Scythian animal style. Her lower body dissolves into elaborate scrolling volutes, evoking serpentine or vegetal forms characteristic of Scythian decorative art. The figure is crowned with a flat headdress and displays a calm, archaic facial expression. The legend СКІФСЬКЕ ЗОЛОТО curves along the lower field. |
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Api was the supreme earth goddess of the Scythians, a nomadic Iranian-speaking people who dominated the Pontic steppe from roughly the 7th to 3rd centuries BC — territory that maps almost precisely onto modern Ukraine. The coin belongs to Ukraine's ongoing "Gods of Ancient Scythia" bullion series, issued partly as a response to growing academic and national interest in reclaiming Scythian heritage as distinctly Ukrainian rather than generically "ancient."
At 1.24 g of .9999 fine gold, these are among the smallest bullion pieces in Ukraine's output, struck at the Luhansk Mint before that facility's fate was sealed by the 2014 conflict.