Above there is the Small National Emblem of Ukraine with the semicircular legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine), in the center - the conventionalized composition: against the background of book sheets - Sholem Aleichem`s personal signet with a fragmentary cartoon regarding his creative work (on the right), below there are the coin face value and issue year - 5 ГРИВЕНЬ/2009 (5 hryvnias/2009).
Obverse script
Cyrillic
Obverse lettering
НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ
5 ГРИВЕНЬ
2009
Reverse description
There are Sholem Aleichem`s portrait and inscriptions in circumference: above - МИР ВАМ (peace be with you), below – 1859-1916, on the right – ШОЛОМ-АЛЕЙХЕМ (Sholem Aleichem), on the left – РАБИНОВИЧ ШОЛОМ (Rabinovich Sholem), being the latter two stylized and in Ukrainian.
