5 Griven Ukraine 2017 Mikhail Petrenko

Ukraine. 5 hryvnia in 2017 year. The poet Mikhail Petrenko.

The commemorative coin "Mikhailo Petrenko" is dedicated to Mikhail Nikolaevich Petrenko (1817-1862) - a romantic poet of the first half of the XIX century. Until now, a few of his works have survived, but on all the continents of the world his song masterpiece "I Look To Heaven" is remembered, and the lines of some of the poet's poems have been preserved in folk songs "The Wave Runs on Oskol" and "I would take a bandura".

Obverse: the mound, the Ukrainian steppe, the stone woman on which the falcon sits are displayed: in the upper semicircle there are: the denomination of 2 UAH, the small State Emblem of Ukraine (under which the year of coinage of 2017) the inscription UKRAINE, the logo of the Banknote-Mint of the National Bank of Ukraine.

Reverse: depicted on a mirror background is a falcon flying and inscriptions: I look at the sky / and thought I think: / Why am I not a falcon, / why do not I fly, / Why did not I give you krill? / I would leave the earth / and fly to the sky! and MIKHAIL / PETRENKO / 1817 1862 (below).
Coin in the capsule.

Release date: 07/11/2017