There is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine); below there is the coin face value 5 ГРИВЕНЬ (5 hryvnias), and in the centre - the conventionalized composition representing Aeneas, a boat, a fragment of a column from Troy and an helmet with the coin issue year indication 2009 thereunder.
Obverse script
Cyrillic
Obverse lettering
НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ
2009
5 ГРИВЕНЬ
Reverse description
There is a portrait of Ivan Kotliarevskyi; to the left and right thereof there are lines from T.Shevchenko`s poem `To Kotliarevskyi`s Imperishable Memory` ...Поки сонце з неба сяє, Тебе не забудуть! (While the sun in the sky shines, You will not be forgotten!) and semicircular inscriptions ІВАН КОТЛЯРЕВСЬКИЙ (Ivan Kotliarevskyi) above and 1769-1838 (years of his life) below.
