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20 Hryven Severyn Nalyvayko
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Value | 20 Hryven |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the small coat of arms of Ukraine centrally positioned, depicting a tryzub (trident) on a shield, flanked by the figure of the Archangel Michael in full armour bearing a staff and shield to the left, and a rampant lion to the right. Decorative interlaced foliate ornaments appear in the left and right fields. The legend УКРАЇНА arcs across the upper field, the date 1997 appears below it, and the denomination 20 ГРИВЕНЬ is inscribed along the lower field. The silver fineness mark Ag 925 and mint mark appear in the lower portion of the inner field, all enclosed within a dotted inner border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Severyn Nalyvayko led one of the most brutal Cossack uprisings against Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth rule in the 1590s, raiding across Volhynia, Belarus, and Moldavia before his campaign collapsed. Captured in 1597, he was executed in Warsaw — by some accounts tortured to death publicly, which made him a martyr figure in Ukrainian historical memory long before independence gave that memory a coin.
This was among the earliest issues in the National Bank's commemorative silver program, launched in 1995 to establish a numismatic identity for a state barely four years old.