Above there are the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the inscription УКРАЇНА (Ukraine) underneath; the conventionalized composition symbolizing science fields and an educational process; in the centre there is the face value 5/ГРИВЕНЬ (5/hryvnias) and the issue year 2015 (below).
Obverse script
Cyrillic
Obverse lettering
УКРАЇНА
5 ГРИВЕНЬ
2015
Reverse description
Against the dark background there is depicted Odesa Illia Mechnikov National University and along the coin circumference there is the inscription ОДЕСЬКИЙ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ УНІВЕРСИТЕТ ІМЕНІ І. І. МЕЧНИКОВА (Odesa Illia Mechnikov National University), below against the relief background there is inscribed 1865, the year of the establishment of the university.
Reverse script
Cyrillic
Reverse lettering
ОДЕСЬКИЙ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ УНІВЕРСИТЕТ
ІМЕНІ І. І. МЕЧНИКОВА
1865
