Silver coin «The Era of Changes» 5 hryvnias, 2018, silver (Ag 999)

Obverse: to the left, are the coin issue year 2018, Ukraine’s small coat of arms and the vertical legends UKRAINE/УКРАЇНА; to the right, are the coin face value П’ЯТЬ ГРИВЕНЬ (five hryvnias), the coin’s metal and fine weight Ag 999 15,55 (Ag 999 15.55) (vertically), and the mint mark of the NBU’s Banknote Printing and Minting Works (beneath); above, against the backdrop of stylized human figures, is a graphical representation of a time spiral, which symbolizes evolution, development, continuous motion, and vitality, and which has been known since Trypillian times (the Trypillian culture is an ancient Ukrainian culture dating back to the sixth millennium B.C.); under the spiral is the following stylized composition: against a brown background (pad printing) containing microchips is an image of the human brain (local gilding, fine weight no less than 0.0001 g).

Reverse: against the backdrop of microchips, is the following composition: against a black background, is an ancient symbol – yin and yang (in color and pad printed); under the symbol is an archaic wheel, symbolizing the sun, life cycles, rebirth and change; in the center of the wheel is an atomic model, which symbolizes scientific and technological achievements; there are the following vertical legends: THE ERA OF CHANGES (to the left) and ЕРА ЗМІН (to the right).