Ukraine 2003 100 hryven Fr-19
This specimen was lot 989 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $10,200. The catalog description[1] noted, "UKRAINE: Republic, AV 100 hryven, 2003, Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine Series - The Golden Pectoral, struck at the Ukrainian mint, Kyiv, PCGS graded PF69 Deep Cameo. The Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla is a gold Scythian collar or pectoral discovered in a burial kurgan at a site called Tovsta Mohyla in modern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, in 1971 by the Ukrainian archaeologist Borys Mozolevskyi. The Tovsta Mohyla burial mound, meaning fat barrow, is in present-day southern Ukraine near the city of Pokrov. The Golden Pectoral is now in the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine in Kyiv." The hryvnia was introduced in 1996 to supersede the Karbovanets (1 hryvnia = 100,000 karbovanetsiv). Its sign is "₴". At present (June 2026), US$1 = 45.07 hryven.
Recorded mintage: 1,500 proofs.
Specifications: 34.55 g, 0.900 fine gold, 32 mm diameter, segmented reeded edge.
Catalog reference: Fr-19, KM-199, Zahreba-3M.100.5.
- 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, 2001-Date, 13th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2018.
- [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.
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