Above there is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the bow-shaped legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine) to the right; in the centre there is depicted an architectural monument, i.e. the building where the painter dwelt and worked; beneath there are the coin face value 5 ГРИВЕНЬ (5 hryvnias) and issue year 2012.
Obverse script
Cyrillic
Obverse lettering
НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ
5 ГРИВЕНЬ
2012
Reverse description
There is a conventionalized portrait of the painter representing a fragment of O.Novakivskyi`s work `Self-portrait with the wife` of 1910; above there is the semicircular inscription ОЛЕКСА НОВАКІВСЬКИЙ (Oleksa Novakivskyi) and 1872/1935 to the left below (years of his life).
