Description:
Obverse
Above is Ukraine's small coat of arms, to the right of which is the legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine); under the legend are the coin's face value and issue year - 5/ГРИВЕНЬ/2017 (5/hryvnias/2017); in the center is a conventionalized composition in the Ukrainian Avant-Guard style of the early 20th century - soldiers wearing uniform that belonged to various military units during the Ukrainian revolution, one of the soldiers holds a flag with the legend - 1917; beneath is the mint mark of the NBU Banknote Printing and Minting Works.
Reverse
There are conventionalized flags that belonged to the first Ukrainian military units, the most prominent of which is the flag of the First Ukrainian Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Regiment; other flags include old flags of the Ukrainian State Navy and the Ukrainian Zaporozhian Regiment, which was created in Moscow by Ukrainian soldiers; below are the flag of Ukraine's present-day armed forces and the legends: 100/РОКІВ (100/years) (below to the left), and ПОЧАТОК ФОРМУВАННЯ ЗБРОЙНИХ СИЛ (vertical to the left) УКРАЇНИ (above) (the beginning of the formation of the Ukrainian armed forces).
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