2 hryvnias

2004

2 hryvnia 200 years since the birth of Mikhail Maksimovich

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General

2004
17.08.2004
30 000

Coin type

12,8 гр.
31 мм

Description

Obverse
The obverse of the coin shows the building of the university (from the Botanical Garden) and placed: the inscription at the top of the semicircle UKRAINE, under which is the small State Emblem of Ukraine and the year of the minting of the coin 2004, at the bottom - the nominal value 2 / GRIVNY (semicircle), the Mint logo of the National Bank of Ukraine .
Reverse
The portrait of Maksimovich (profile) is depicted on the reverse and there are inscriptions: on both sides in a semicircle - MIKHAIL (left) MAKSIMOVICH (right), below are the years of life - 1804-1873.
Edge
Fluted
Description
Devoted to the 200th anniversary of the natural scientist, historian, archeologist, archeographer, linguist, teacher and writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Maksimovich (1804 - 1873). Maksimovich - a scholarly encyclopaedist, one of the founders of Ukrainian historiography, intellectual Ukrainian history and national botany, the author of the poetic translations `The Words of the Regiment Igorevim`, the first rector of Kiev University of St.. Mikhail Maksimovich rightfully belongs to the number of prominent Ukrainian thinkers and devotees of witch-born science. Artist: Sergey Belyaev Sculptor: Atamanchuk Vladimir