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20 Hryven Pure Water
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The gold centre depicts a close-up view of a water surface with concentric ripples radiating outward from a falling droplet, with a second suspended droplet shown above in the field, conveying motion and the purity of water. The surrounding silver ring carries the Small National Emblem of Ukraine (trident) to the left and the date 2007 to the right. The circumferential Cyrillic legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ arcs along the upper portion of the ring, while the denomination 20 ГРИВЕНЬ and the mint logotype of the National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works appear in the lower portion. |
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Ukraine launched a "Pure Water" conservation series in the mid-2000s as the Dnieper basin — source of drinking water for roughly 32 million people — faced mounting industrial contamination pressure following post-Soviet industrial neglect and the long tail of Chornobyl's groundwater effects. The bimetallic format, gold centre set in a silver ring, was expensive to produce relative to face value and clearly aimed at the collector market rather than any circulatory function.
The Fridberg reference Fr#25a places this squarely in the catalogued Ukrainian bimetallic gold issues, a short series with low mintages across all titles.