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  • 1 Hryvnia 2004-2018, KM# 209, Ukraine, Vladimir the Great
  • 1 Hryvnia 2004-2018, KM# 209, Ukraine, Vladimir the Great
Description

Engraver: Volodymyr Demyanenko

Obverse

Depicts a small-size national coat of arms of Ukraine, year of minting below in a traditional and ornamental Ukrainian style frame. Value in the centre, the logo of the National Bank of Ukraine Mint on the right.

The state coat of arms of Ukraine is the Tryzub (trident). The modern "trident" symbol was adopted as the coat of arms of the Ukrainian People's Republic in February 1918. The design has precedents in seals of the Kiyivan Rus'. The first known archeological and historical evidence of this symbol can be found on the seals of the Rurik dynasty. It was stamped on the gold and silver coins issued by Prince Volodymyr the Great (980–1015).

УКРАЇНА
1
ГРИВНЯ
2006

Reverse

Depicts a half-length figure of Vladimir the Great facing, holding a Christian cross in his left hand and a model of the Church of the Tithes in the right, surrounded by Vladimir's name in Ukranian.

Vladimir the Great (c. 958 – 1015) was a prince of Novgorod, grand prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015.

Vladimir's father was prince Sviatoslav of the Rurik dynasty. After the death of his father in 972, Vladimir, who was then prince of Novgorod, was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his brother Yaropolk had murdered his other brother Oleg and conquered Rus'. In Sweden, with the help from his relative Ladejarl Håkon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, he assembled a Varangian army and reconquered Novgorod from Yaropolk. By 980, Vladimir had consolidated the Kievan realm from modern-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to the Baltic Sea and had solidified the frontiers against incursions of Bulgarian, Baltic tribes and Eastern nomads. Originally a follower of Slavic paganism, Vladimir converted to Christianity in 988 and Christianized the Kievan Rus'.

The Church of the Tithes or Church of the Dormition of the Virgin (Ukrainian: Десятинна Церква, Desiatynna Tserkva; Russian: Десятинная Церковь, Desyatinnaya Tserkov') was the first stone church in Kiev. Originally it was built by the order of Grand Prince Vladimir the Great between 989 and 996 by Byzantine and local workers at the site of death of martyrs Theodor the Varangian and his son Johann. The church was ruined in 1240 during the siege of Kiev by Mongol armies of Batu Khan. On an initiative of the Metropolitan of Kiev Eugene Bolkhovitinov, the church was rebuilt in the mid 19th century, but in 1928 it was once again destroyed by the Soviet regime.

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Value and year

ОДНА · ГРИВНЯ · 2006 ·

1 Hryvnia

Vladimir the Great

KM# 209 Schön# 232
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Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Aluminium Bronze
Weight 6.8 g
Diameter 26 mm
Thickness 1.85 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
National Bank of Ukraine Mint (NBU)

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