20 Hryven Cossack Mamay

Features

Issuer Ukraine
Issuing bank National Bank of Ukraine (Національний банк України)
Period Republic (1991-date)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 1997
Value 20 Hryven
20 UAH = USD 0.51
Currency Hryvnia (1996-date)
Composition Silver (.925)
Weight 33.63 g
Diameter 38.61 mm
Thickness 3.28 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
92886
References KM# 54,
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.
Zahreba# CM.20.3
Maksym Zahreba; 2023. Монети України : каталог = Ukrainian Coins : Catalog (18th edition). FOP Zahreba M.M, Kyiv.

Commemorative issue

Cossack Mamay

Series: Heroes of Cossack Age

Obverse

There is depicted a common for this series scene which embodies the idea of Ukraine's integrity: the small National Emblem of Ukraine supported by the stamped figures of Saint Michael Archistrategos in a knightly attire and with a spear, the patron of Kiev and a crowned lion (the symbols of the Grand Duchy of Galicia and Volhynia respectively) and the conventionalized inscriptions: УКРАЇНА and 20 ГРИВЕНЬ, coin's face value-underneath in two lines. All inscriptions are separated from one another with baroque ornaments and griffins depictions. On the left from the figure 20, there are designations of Аg 925 and 31,1, coin weight in fineness.

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
УКРАЇНА
1997
20 ГРИВЕНЬ

Engraver: Andrzej Nowakowski

Designer: Oleksandr Ivakhnenko

Reverse

In the circle made of a string of beads, there is a composition popular in 18th-20th century folk art of Ukraine: Cossack Mamay dressed in a rich coat edged with fur, sits in a Turkish way, smokes a pipe and plays the bandura. Around him there are traditional attributes of the Cossack military life of that period: a horse with a good outfit, tied to a spear with a small flag on its top, plunged into soil; a green oak-tree with a hanging sabre; a pistol and a stone powder case; high Turkish hat and a bottle of 'okovyta' (Ukrainian vodka). Around the coin external circumference there are inscriptions: КОЗАК МАМАЙ (Cossack Mamay) - on the left and ЛИЦАР ВОЛІ І ЧЕСТІ (paladin of freedom and honour) - on the right. Above these inscriptions are separated with a small flag at the spear top, underneath - with a conventionalized highbush cranberry spray.

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
КОЗАК МАМАЙ
ЛИЦАР ВОЛІ І ЧЕСТІ

Engraver: Andrzej Nowakowski

Designer: Oleksandr Ivakhnenko

Edge

Reeded

Mint

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

Comments

The coin is the first one from the Heroes of Cossack Age series, presenting a gallery of characters of glorious sons of Ukraine and most important events in the country's history of 16th-18th centuries.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
1997  5 000 Proof

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