Coin The Year of the Rat 5 UAH, market price 27.03.2023
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nickel silver
292 грн.

Obverse: above is Ukraine`s small coat of arms, to the right of which is the semicircular legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine); against a smooth background, are the 12 symbols of the oriental calendar depicted around a circle; in the center of the circle is a stylized clock with a hand pointing to the rat – the symbol of the current year; below the hand is the coin issue year 2020; beneath, to the left, is the semicircular legend 5 ГРИВЕНЬ (5 hryvnias); against a matt background, are the symbols of each season that were stylized to resemble a Ukrainian ornament: a snowflake (above), a flower (to the right), a berry (beneath), and a leaf (to the left); the mint mark of the NBU’s Banknote Printing and Minting Works is to the right, above the symbol of the tiger.

Reverse: there is a curled up rat – the symbol of the current year according to the oriental calendar; the rat is circled with the following stylized symbols: snowflakes (above, to the right), flowers (beneath, to the right), fruit (beneath, to the left), and tree branches (above, to the left).
This coin celebrates the rat, one of the animals that begin the 12-year cycle of the oriental calendar.
Date | Denomination | Metal | weight | Diameter | Edition |
27.01.2020 | 5 | nickel silver | 16.54 | 35 | 50 000 pc. |

Series: Oriental calendar
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