To the left, are the coin issue year 2018, Ukraine’s small coat of arms and the vertical legends UKRAINE/УКРАЇНА; to the right, are the coin face value П’ЯТЬ ГРИВЕНЬ (five hryvnias), the coin’s metal and fine weight Ag 999 15,55 (Ag 999 15.55) (vertically), and the mint mark of the NBU’s Banknote Printing and Minting Works (beneath); against the backdrop of a stylized heliocentric model, which symbolizes the development of astronomy and philosophy, is Einstein’s equation E=mc? that shows the relation between the mass and energy of any substance and which symbolizes the theory of relativity; under the equation, against a violet background containing images of a double helix, which symbolizes a human genome (pad printing), is da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man symbolizing the canonical proportions of a human body (local gilding, fine weight no less than 0.0001 g).
Obverse script
Cyrillic, Latin
Obverse lettering
2018
UKRAINE
УКРАЇНА
П`ЯТЬ ГРИВЕНЬ
Ag999 15,55
Reverse description
Against the backdrop of a stylized scheme of nucleic acids, is a clock, which symbolizes eternity, time and its brevity; in the center of the clock are the smooth silhouettes of a man and a woman, above which, against a black background, are colored, entwined symbols that symbolize the male and female sex (pad printing); there are the following vertical legends: THE HUMAN • TIME • SPACE (to the left) and ЛЮДИНА • ЧАС • ПРОСТІР (to the right).
Reverse script
Cyrillic, Latin
Reverse lettering
THE HUMAN · TIME · SPACE
ЛЮДИНА · ЧАС · ПРОСТІР
Edge
Smooth
Mint
National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works, Kyiv, Ukraine (1998-date)