Coin «100 Years since the Establishment of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences» 5 hryvnias, 2018, nickel silver

Obverse: above, to the left, is Ukraine’s small coat of arms, below which is the legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine); above, to the right, is the coin face value 5/ГРИВЕНЬ (5/hryvnias); in the center, against a matt background, are the following legends: ЗАКОН/ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ/ ДЕРЖАВИ/ ПРО ЗАСНУВАННЯ/ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ АКАДЕМІЇ НАУК/ В М. КИЄВІ/ ЗАТВЕРДЖУЮ/ ПАВЛО СКОРОПАДСЬКИЙ/ 14 ЛИСТОПАДА 1918 РОКУ М. КИЇВ (the law adopted by the/ Ukrainian /state establishing/ Ukraine’s Academy of Sciences/ in the city of Kyiv/ approved by/ Pavlo Skoropadskyi / 14 November 1918 city of Kyiv); under the legends is a facsimile of Skoropadskyi’s signature; beneath is a stamp of the Ukrainian state, on both sides of which are the following years: 1918 and 2018; there is also the mint mark of the NBU Banknote Printing and Minting Works.

Reverse: against the backdrop of the Presidium of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences is a portrait of Volodymyr Vernadskyi; above the presidium are the following legends: НАЦІОНАЛЬНА/ АКАДЕМІЯ НАУК/ УКРАЇНИ (Ukraine’s/National/Academy/of Sciences); beneath is a stylized number 100, with the years 1918 and 2018 inscribed inside the zeros of the number.