5 Hryven UNESCO

Issued as part of Ukraine's long-running commemorative circulation series tied to UNESCO World Heritage designations, this particular piece marks the inscription of the historic center of L'viv — added to the UNESCO list in 1998. Ukraine began striking bimetallic hryvnia commemoratives aggressively in the early 2000s, partly as a soft-power exercise in asserting cultural legitimacy during a period when national identity remained a live political question. The series flooded collector markets quickly, keeping secondary values modest.