10 Hryven Defenders of Donetsk airport

Features

Location	Ukraine
Issuing entity	National Bank of Ukraine
Period	Republic (1991-date)
Type	Non-circulating coin
Year	2018
Value	10 Hryven 10 UAH = USD 0.27
Currency	Hryvnia (1996-date)
Composition	Zinc (Zinc alloy)
Weight	12.4 g
Diameter	30 mm
Thickness	2.75 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 134223 Numista type number (https://en.numista.com/help/what-is-the-n-number-visible-in-the-catalogue-33.html)

Series: Armed Forces of Ukraine

Obverse

Above, to the left, is the semicircular legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine), under which are the coin’s issue year (2018) and Ukraine’s small coat of arms; in the center is the following conventionalized composition: two male hands holding weapons from different epochs, which symbolize Ukraine’s defenders from different historical times; against a smooth background are the following legends: ЗА ЧЕСТЬ! ЗА СЛАВУ! ЗА НАРОД! (For honor! For glory! For the people!); beneath, to the left, against the backdrop of a conventionalized shield fragment is the coin’s face value 10/ГРИВЕНЬ (10/hryvnias); to the right is the mint mark of the NBU Banknote Printing and Minting Works.

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
УКРАЇНА
2018
ЗА ЧЕСТЬ!
ЗА СЛАВУ!
ЗА НАРОД!
10
ГРИВЕНЬ

Translation:
Ukraine
For Honor!
For Glory!
For the People!
10 Hryven

Engravers: Anatolii Demyanenko, Volodymyr Demianenko

Designers: Volodymyr Taran, Oleksandr Kharuk, Serhii Kharuk

Reverse

There is a conventionalized composition depicting an airport defender against the background of the half-ruined control tower, with a Ukrainian flag flying above it; to the right are bullet-ridden metal constructions with the vertical legend: КІБОРГИ. UA/ 26•05•2014/21•01•2015 (CYBORGS. UA/ 26•05•2014/21•01•2015).

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
КІБОРГИ; UA
26.05.2014
21.01.2015

Translation: Cyborgs; Ukraine

Engravers: Anatolii Demyanenko, Volodymyr Demianenko

Designers: Volodymyr Taran, Oleksandr Kharuk, Serhii Kharuk

Edge

Corrugated

Mint

National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works, Kyiv, Ukraine (1998-date)
Mintmark of National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works

Comments

The nicknames "Cyborgs" comes from many Ukrainians viewing the defenders at the airport as superhumans, for them being able to take on the heavily armed Russian insurgents.

This coin celebrates the defenders of Donetsk Airport, known as cyborgs, who defended the airport for 242 days. Their courageous and heroic battles have come to symbolize the self-sacrificing fight for Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

In 2020, after first 9 coins of the series of 10 Hryven denomination were put into circulation, NBU started selling empty albums for them.
In July 2022 NBU started selling albums already filled with coins.
Between January 2018 and July 2022 coins of the series of 10 Hryven denomination were non-circulating coins (they were selling with price denomination + at least 10% in banks or for the short period of time by denomination in NBU web store). At the end of July 2022 (at the fifth month of war with Russia) NBU made a decision to make these coins circulating commemorative starting from August 1, 2022 and put into circulation his reserve of approximately 5-6 millions of coins and stop distributing them via banks.

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Date		Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
2018		1 000 000				$ 1.10	$ 1.20	$ 1.70	$ 1.70

Values in the table above are expressed in USD. They are based on evaluations by Numista users and sales realized on Internet platforms. They serve as an indication only; they are not intended to be relied upon for buying, selling or exchanging. Numista does not buy or sell coins or banknotes.

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