A bandura is depicted encircled with a Baroque ornament and the conventionalized inscription БАНДУРА (bandura) made to look like the Cossack script.
Obverse script
Cyrillic
Obverse lettering
БАНДУРА (Translation: Bandura)
Reverse description
The raised obverse symbolizes bandura strings. Here a Ukrainian song is reproduced as a conventionalized Baroque ornamentation. Above there is the small National Emblem of Ukraine, conventionalized inscriptions in the Cossack script - УКРАЇНА (Ukraine). Beneath there are inscriptions: 2003, the coin issue year, 5 ГРИВЕНЬ (5 hryvnia) and the NBU Mint logotype.
Reverse script
Cyrillic
Reverse lettering
УКРАЇНА
2003
5 ГРИВЕНЬ (Translation: Ukraine 2003 5 hryven (plural of hryvnia))
Edge
Segmented reeding
Mint
National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works, Kyiv, Ukraine (1998-date)