Ukraine 1996 200 hryven Fr-5
This specimen was lot 971 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $2,640. The catalog description[1] noted, "UKRAINE: Republic, AV 200 hryven, 1996, Outstanding Personalities of Ukraine Series - Taras Shevchenko, equal mintage at both the Münze Österreich, Vienna and the Ukrainian mint, Kyiv, PCGS graded PF70 Deep Cameo." The hryvnia was introduced in 1996 to supersede the Karbovanets (1 hryvnia = 100,000 karbovantsiv). At present (June 2026), US$1 = 45.07 hryven. Taras Shevchenko (1814-61), depicted here, was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, folklorist and ethnographer.
Recorded mintage: 5,000 struck in Kyiv plus 5,000 struck in Vienna.
Specifications: 17.5 g, 0.900 fine gold, 25 mm diameter, plain edge.
Catalog reference: Fr-5, KM-37, Zahreba-3M.200.1.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.
Links:
- 1995 2,000,000 karbovantsiv, 50th Anniversary of the United Nations
- 1996 200,000 karbovantsiv, 125th Anniversary of Lesya Ukrainka
- 1996 1,000,000 karbovantsiv, Bohdan Khmelnytsky
- 1996 1,000,000 karbovantsiv, Lesya Ukrayinka
- 1996 1,000,000 karbovantsiv, Mykhaylo Hrushevsky
- 1996 1,000,000 karbovantsiv, Hrygoriy Skovoroda
- 1996 2,000,000 karbovantsiv, 10th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster
- 1996 2,000,000 karbovantsiv, Atlanta Summer Olympic Games
- 1996 2,000,000 karbovantsiv, Centennial of the Modern Olympics
- 1996 10 hryven, Petro Mohyla
- 1996 20 hryven, 1000th Anniversary of the Tithe Church
- 1996 50 hryven, St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev
- 1996 200 hryven, Pecherska Lavra monastery
- 1997 100 hryven, Kyiv Psalm book
- 1998 2 hryvni, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development
- Coins and currency dated 1996