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5 Hryven Lighthouses of Ukraine
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1019, Zahreba#KM.5.237 |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a central compass rose set within an azimuth circle, symbolizing navigation and safe passage, surrounded by stylized wave motifs filling the field. Six lighthouses with their Ukrainian names are depicted and inscribed around the periphery: СТАНІСЛАВ-АДЖИГОЛЬСЬКИЙ ЗАДНІЙ (Adziogol Rear Lighthouse) at upper left, ЗМІЇНИЙ (Snake Island Lighthouse) at left, ЄВПАТОРІЙСЬКИЙ (Yevpatoriia Lighthouse) at lower left, МЕГАНОМСЬКИЙ (Meganom Lighthouse) at bottom, ІЛЛІНСЬКИЙ (Cape Saint Elias Lighthouse) at lower right, and БИРЮЧИЙ (Byriuchyi Island Lighthouse) at right. Seagulls in flight appear at the upper field, above the arching legend МАЯКИ УКРАЇНИ (Lighthouses of Ukraine). |
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Ukraine's lighthouse coinage series, launched in the early 2000s, documented navigational infrastructure along the Black Sea and Azov Sea coastlines at a moment when Ukrainian maritime jurisdiction over those waters was already becoming geopolitically contested. By 2021, the year this piece was struck, Russia's annexation of Crimea had severed Ukraine from several of the very lighthouses the series had commemorated — structures now under Russian operational control.
The Zahreba catalog remains the definitive reference for modern Ukrainian collector coinage, filling gaps the KM numbering system is slow to address.