Coin Smith 5 UAH, market price 29.03.2024
Коваль
nickel silver
320 грн.
Obverse: above there are the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine and the conventionalized legend: НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine) thereunder; in the centre there are depicted in a conventionalized manner two little birds and (to the left and right of them) different smithcraft products - Old Rus arms and household stuff; below there is the legend: 5/ГРИВЕНЬ/2011 (5 hryvnias) (on the German silver one) together with the National Bank of Ukraine Mint logo.
Reverse: on both coins there is depicted a smith at work. Above, there is the legend КОВАЛЬ (smith). To the left and right of the central composition there are ornamental patterns.
The commemorative coin is dedicated to the smithcraft, i.e. treatment of iron by the hot forging techniques. As early as in the Xth-XIIth centuries the skills of smiths reached such a high level that some of the iron treatment methods and processes for manufacture of tools and household goods have remained practically unchanged to this day.
Date | Nominal value | Metal | weight | Diameter | Edition |
28.03.2011 | 5 | nickel silver | 16.54 | 35 | 45 000 pc. |
Series: Folk Crafts of Ukraine
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