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500 Hryven 300th Birth Anniversary of Hryhorii Skovoroda
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Printer | Banknote Printing and Minting Works of the National Bank of Ukraine (Банкнотно-монетний двір Національного банку), Kiev, Ukraine |
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| Obverse lettering | НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ Голова 300 СВІТ СКОВОРОДИ 500 УКРАЇНА Не ра́вное всѣмъ ра́венство. Льются изъ разныхъ тру́бокъ, разные токи: въ ра́зные Григорій Сковорода 500 П`ЯТСОТ ГРИВЕНЬ (Translation: National Bank of Ukraine Head 300 Skovoroda`s world 500 Ukraine Not equal to all equality. They flow from different pipes, different currents: into different Hryhorii Skovoroda 500 500 Hryven) |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Hryhorii Skovoroda — 18th-century philosopher, poet, and wandering ascetic — is already the face of the regular-issue 500 Hryvnia, which makes this commemorative note an unusual case of a subject appearing twice in the same denomination of the same currency. The 2022 Russian destruction of the Skovoroda Literary Memorial Museum in Skovorodynivka, which occurred roughly a year after this note was issued, gave the commemorative an unintended and grim resonance.
Printed domestically at the NBU's own facility, the security specification is notably modest for a commemorative — watermark and thread only, without the polymer substrate or windowed foil elements seen on some NBU collector issues of the same period.