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2 Hryvni World War II
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | At center, the small National Emblem of Ukraine (trident) is displayed within a wreath of military glory adorned with a St. George ribbon. The denomination 2 ГРИВНІ and the issuing country УКРАЇНА appear as legends within the field, with the date 2000 positioned below the emblem. The overall composition is formal and heraldic in character. |
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| Obverse lettering | УКРАЇНА 2 ГРИВНІ 2000 (Translation: Ukraine 2 Hryvni 2000) |
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Issued to mark the 55th anniversary of Victory in World War II, this coin appeared during a period when Ukraine was actively constructing a post-Soviet national memory — one that had to reconcile the enormous Soviet sacrifices of the war with a distinctly Ukrainian identity separate from Russian commemoration. An estimated eight million Ukrainians died between 1941 and 1945, a figure that includes both military losses and civilian deaths under German occupation. The Zahreba reference places this firmly within the commemorative bimetallic series the National Bank launched through the late 1990s and early 2000s to populate a catalog that barely existed before independence in 1991.