5 Hryven Chernobyl. Renaissance. Przewalski's horse

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.