Coin The Issuing of a Tomos on the Autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church 50 UAH, market price 04.02.2023

Obverse: below are Ukraine’s small coat of arms (to the left), the semicircular legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine), the coin issue year 2019 and the coin face value П’ЯТДЕСЯТ ГРИВЕНЬ (fifty hryvnias); in the center is a stylized cross-like composition topped by the gilt* stamp of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I; the composition is made of gilt* medallions depicting cathedrals of the world’s 15 autocephalous Orthodox churches; next to the medallions are the names of the churches: above is the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, below which is the Patriarchate of Alexandria; to the right is the Patriarchate of Antioch, below which is the Patriarchate of Jerusalem (to the right), below which is the Patriarchate of Moscow; to the left is the Patriarchate of Serbia, below which is the Patriarchate of Romania; beneath is the Patriarchate of Bulgaria; to the left is Patriarchate of Georgia, above which is the Church of Cyprus; to the left is the Church of Greece, above is the Church of Poland, above which is the Church of Albania; to the right is the Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, above which is the Ukrainian Church.

Reverse: against a smooth background is Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (to the left) handing over a roll (tomos) to Epiphanius I of Ukraine, the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine (to the right); there are the following legends: 15-ТА ЦЕРКВА У БЛАГОСЛОВЕННОМУ ХОРІ АВТОКЕФАЛЬНИХ ЦЕРКОВ (15th in the blessed assembly of autocephalous churches) (semicircular, above) and «СВЯТІША ЦЕРКВА УКРАЇНИ»/06.01.2019 (the most holy church of Ukraine/ 6 January 2019) (beneath).