Description:
Obverse
Above is above is the semicircular legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine), under which is Ukraine's small state coat of arms; in the center there is the following conventionalized composition: against the background of newspaper pages is a pile of books topped by a globe; to the right are the legends 2/ГРИВНІ/2017 (2/hryvnias/2017) and the mint mark of the NBU Printing and Minting Works.
Reverse
There is a portrait of Mykola Kostomarov, to the left of which are the writer's signature and the years of his birth and death: 1817/1885; above is the semicircular legend МИКОЛА КОСТОМАРОВ (Mykola Kostomarov).
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