1. List of commemorative coins of Ukraine made of precious metals
2. Volodymyr Vernadsky, value 2013

Coin Volodymyr Vernadsky 5 UAH, market price 18.03.2026

Obverse: above there is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine); in the centre there is a composition whose constituents mirror the scientist`s view of life: the terrestrial globe, crystal lattice of silicon, human figurine and burst of light symbolizing the new life birth; below there are the coin face value П`ЯТЬ ГРИВЕНЬ (five hryvnias) and issue year indication 2013.

Reverse: in the foreground to the right there is a portrait of Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky; to the left above there is depicted the terrestrial globe with the scholar`s dictum `ЦАРСТВО МОЇХ ІДЕЙ ПОПЕРЕДУ` (The realm of my ideas is yet to come) and his years of life 1863/1945 thereunder; below there is the inscription В. І. ВЕРНАДСЬКИЙ (V.I.Vernadsky).

The coin is dedicated to Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky, a world-famous scientist in the area of natural history, mineralogist, crystallographer, the founder of geochemistry, biogeochemistry and radiogeology, a thinker, philosopher, the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and founder of the first research library in Ukraine.