I got this from a forum member and good freind. i looked it up everywhere that I could think of. I think it may be a token but I dont have a clue what it say's or where it is from any help is appritiated Gary
While it's not in my Krause, I can sort of read it... Ukraine, 1 Hrivniya, 2005. Obverse may say "Vladimir Velikiy" Please correct me...my Russian is bad, and my Ukrainian is worse!
Kurt is correct. It is a 1 Hryvnia coin from Ukraine (KM#209). The guy on the reverse of the coin is Volodimir Veliky. The coin composition is Aluminum-Bronze.
"Veliky" apparently means "the Great". Vladimir the Great was the first Christian king of the Kievan Rus', a proto-Russian nation centred on Kiev, in what is now the Ukraine.
The Ukrainian coat of arms is the prominent feature on all Ukrainian coinage. The thing on the shield, which sort-of looks like a trident or winged sword, is the tryzub, an old symbol of the Ukraine, variants of which were used by the rulers of Kiev dating back to Vladimir the Great.
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