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5 Hryven Zaporizhia
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Hryvnia (1996-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | УКРАЇНА 5 ГРИВЕНЬ 2020 |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Issued as part of Ukraine's long-running "Regions of Ukraine" commemorative series, this coin marks Zaporizhia Oblast — a region whose name derives directly from the Zaporozhian Sich, the fortified host of Cossack warriors who established their headquarters beyond the Dnieper rapids. The Sich was destroyed by Catherine the Great's forces in 1775, an act of deliberate erasure that the Soviet period did little to rehabilitate and independent Ukraine has worked systematically to reverse through cultural commemoration of exactly this kind.
The "German silver" designation reflects a nickel-copper-zinc alloy with no actual silver content — a naming convention inherited from 19th-century German metalworking trade terminology.