A fan-shaped relief on the coin represents symbolically a tsymbaly melody. There are a baroque decorative pattern and inscriptions in simulated Cossack script, above – НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (The National Bank of Ukraine), below – 2006 / 5 / ГРИВЕНЬ (hryvnias) and the logotype of the NBU Mint.
Obverse script
Cyrillic
Obverse lettering
НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ
2006
5 ГРИВЕНЬ (Translation: The National Bank of Ukraine 5 Hryvnias)
Reverse description
There is a picture of tsymbaly circled by a baroque decorative pattern and inscriptions in simulated Cossack script—ЦИМБАЛИ (tsymbaly).
Reverse script
Cyrillic
Reverse lettering
ЦИМБАЛИ (Translation: Tsymbaly)
Edge
Sectoral corrugation
Mint
National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works, Kyiv, Ukraine (1998-date)