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2 Hryvni Volodymyr Filatov
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a stylized geometric composition dominated by intersecting curved and diagonal planes across the field, evoking an abstract optical motif consistent with the coin's ophthalmology theme. The small shield-shaped State Emblem of Ukraine (trident) is placed at the top center. The legend УКРАЇНА arcs along the upper field, with the denomination 2 ГРИВНІ inscribed prominently to the left in two lines. The date 2005 appears along the lower field, and the mint mark of the Banknote Printing and Minting Works is situated near the lower right. A mirror-image reflection of the denomination is incorporated into the decorative design at center right. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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Volodymyr Filatov (1875–1956) was an Odesa-born ophthalmologist whose corneal transplant techniques and tissue grafting methods — developed largely during the Soviet period — saved the sight of tens of thousands of patients worldwide. Ukraine's 2005 commemorative program issued several such portraits of scientists and cultural figures as a sustained exercise in national biographical reclamation, reasserting Ukrainian intellectual heritage that Soviet historiography had habitually subsumed into a broader Russian identity.
The coin is struck in nickel brass, a material the NBU used consistently across its bimetallic and base-metal commemorative lines of the mid-2000s.