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5 Hryven Chernobyl. Renaissance. Przewalski's horse
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Obverse description | At the top of the obverse, the small coat of arms of Ukraine is displayed prominently, flanked by the legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine) beneath it and the denomination 5 / ГРИВЕНЬ (5 hryvnias) to its right. The central field features a stylized symbolic wheel of life representing the rebirth of nature: a rendered international radioactive symbol is entwined with foliage and encircled by relief depictions of wildlife species — including the black stork, Przewalski's horse, lynx, bison, moose, and brown bear — all animals repopulating the 30-kilometer Chornobyl exclusion zone. A circular legend around the design reads ЧОРНОБИЛЬСЬКИЙ РАДІАЦІЙНО-ЕКОЛОГІЧНИЙ БІОСФЕРНИЙ ЗАПОВІДНИК (left arc, in Cyrillic) and CHORNOBYL RADIATION AND ECOLOGICAL BIOSPHERE RESERVE (right arc, in Latin), against a smooth field. The issue year 2021 appears in the lower exergue, and the mint mark of the NBU Banknote Printing and Minting Works is positioned at the top. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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The Przewalski's horse — the last truly wild horse species, never successfully domesticated — was among the fauna displaced by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. When the exclusion zone was depopulated, a small herd was deliberately introduced in 1998 by Ukrainian and Belarusian conservationists. Absent human pressure, the population grew. The zone's enforced emptiness became, inadvertently, one of the more effective wildlife reserves in Eastern Europe.
This coin belongs to Ukraine's long-running "Chernobyl. Renaissance" series, which frames the exclusion zone not through catastrophe but through ecological recovery. The Zahreba reference confirms it as a base-metal circulation-quality commemorative, not a precious-metal proof issue.