My Collection
Description:
Obverse
The coin is dedicated to the the hundredth anniversary of ice hockey in Ukraine. The date of publication of the Official Ice Hockey Rules in Ukrainian under the editorship of I. Boberskyi in 1910 has been chosen the terminus a quo for the ice hockey history in Ukraine. At that date the ice hockey was one of the most popular winter sports in Lviv.
On the coin obverse there are depicted the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular inscription (National Bank of Ukraine) above, the goaltender and interlacing of the geometrical lines representing the skate tracings, which makes the composition more dynamic; the coin face value and issue year - (2 hryvni) are indicated below.
Reverse
On the coin reverse there are depicted: in the foreground an ice-hockey player of nowadays, in the background – the players of the 20th century beginning against the background of conventionalized towers of Lviv where the first hockey matches took place.
Related Coins
10 Hryven (Lynx)
Country: Ukraine / Denomination: 10 Hryven
10 UAH = 0.37 USD
Year: 2001 / Material: Silver (.925)
20 Hryven (Holodomor - Genocide of Ukrainian People)
Country: Ukraine / Denomination: 20 Hryven
20 UAH = 0.74 USD
Year: 2007 / Material: Silver (.925)
50 Kopeks (Reichskommissariat Ukraine)
Country: Ukraine / Denomination: 50 Kopeks
(0.50)
Year: 1943 / Material: Iron
2 Hryvni (Hedgehog)
Country: Ukraine / Denomination: 2 Hryvni
2 UAH = 0.07 USD
Year: 2006 / Material: Gold (.999)
2 Hryvni (Bee)
Country: Ukraine / Denomination: 2 Hryvni
2 UAH = 0.07 USD
Year: 2010 / Material: Gold (.999)
10 Hryven (Garden Dormouse)
Country: Ukraine / Denomination: 10 Hryven
10 UAH = 0.37 USD
Year: 1999 / Material: Silver (.925)
10 Hryven (St Nicholas Cathedral in Kyiv)
Country: Ukraine / Denomination: 10 Hryven
10 UAH = 0.37 USD
Year: 2016 / Material: Silver (.925)
5 Hryven (Central State Historical Archives)
Country: Ukraine / Denomination: 5 Hryven
5 UAH = 0.18 USD
Year: 2003 / Material: Bi-Metallic Brass center in Copper-nickel ring
20 Hryven (Oleksandr Dovzhenko)
Country: Ukraine / Denomination: 20 Hryven
20 UAH = 0.74 USD
Year: 2014 / Material: Silver (.925)
2 Hryvni (Oleh Olzhych)
Country: Ukraine / Denomination: 2 Hryvni
2 UAH = 0.07 USD
Year: 2007 / Material: Copper-nickel-zinc