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5 Hryven Christmas
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Currency | Hryvnia (1996-date) |
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| Obverse description | At center, the small National Emblem of Ukraine (trident) is flanked by two standing angelic figures in relief. The surrounding legend reads УКРАЇНА above, with the denomination 5 ГРИВЕНЬ and the date 1999 distributed within the field. The composition is arranged symmetrically, with the angels rendered in a stylized decorative manner framing the state symbol. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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Ukraine's early commemorative program in the late 1990s was partly a deliberate nation-building exercise — the hryvnia itself had only been introduced in 1996, replacing the transitional karbovanets after years of post-Soviet hyperinflation that had rendered Ukrainian currency nearly worthless. A Christmas commemorative struck just three years into the hryvnia's existence was as much about asserting institutional normalcy as marking the holiday.
The Zahreba reference places this within a well-documented Ukrainian specialist catalog, useful for attribution given how frequently early NBU commemoratives are misidentified in general listings.