On the obverse of the coin at the top there is an inscription UKRAINE, under which is stylized a gilded page (local gilding) of the Supral Irmologion (1598–1601) - the oldest notolinear manuscript, sources of the liturgical heritage and music of the Kiev Church, which is kept in the National Library of Ukraine named after. I. Vernadsky; to the left of the page - the small State Emblem of Ukraine, under which the year of minting is 2020; denomination 20 UAH (to the right of the page).

On the reverse of the coin, in the center, there are three-dimensional figures of choristers who sing according to notes, a fragment of the icon “Exaltation of the Holy Cross with the Family of Jan Sobieski” (1670–1689), which is kept in the Andriy Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, filled with a certain rhythm, and placed: stylized inscriptions: COLLECTION / CHURCH SONGS / IRMOLOGION (above) and notes (under the image of the choristers).

Smooth with in-depth inscription

Dedicated to the legacy of the Ancient spiritual song tradition that reigned since the end of the 16th century. throughout the ethnic territory of Ukrainians and Belarusians, - to notated collections of different genres of liturgical singing - Irmologions. In the Irmologion, the first notated book, irmos were collected as melodic and rhythmic models for the troparia of the canons, hence its mass distribution - both in church practice and in educational. Words in a poetic text are strung on a thread like pearls in beads, alternating like motives of an ornament. Irmologions consisted in monasteries, cathedrals, and parish churches. A significant part of the surviving Irmologions is handwritten. At the beginning of the eighteenth century. printed music irmologions began to be published.