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5 Hryven The Kingdom of Galicia
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a stylized, conventionalized portrait of Danylo Romanovych (Danylo of Galicia), medieval founder of the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia, rendered in high relief against a textured background evoking a heraldic banner or flag bearing a lion motif. The portrait is presented in a formal, iconic artistic style consistent with historical commemorative coinage. The curved legend ГАЛИЦЬКЕ КОРОЛІВСТВО arcs around the design, identifying the commemorated historical entity. The overall composition combines medieval iconographic traditions with modern minting technique. |
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| Mintage | 2016 - Special Uncirculated; only in sets - 50,000 |
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Issued to mark the historical region of Galicia as part of Ukraine's long-running "Ancient Cities of Ukraine" commemorative series, this coin references a territory whose political identity was contested across centuries — folded into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, then absorbed by the Habsburg Empire in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, where it remained until the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918. The phrase "Kingdom of Galicia" is itself a Habsburg administrative construct, formally the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a name revived from a medieval Rus' title to lend the annexation historical legitimacy.