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Commemorative Coins "Garden Dormouse"

In circulation since December 15, 1999. 

Technical description

Denomination,
hryvnia		 Metal Weight,
g		 Diameter,
mm		 Quality Rim Mintage,
pieces
10 925 high standard silver 31.1 38.61 "proof" incised 5 000
2 German silver 12.8 31.0 ordinary incised 50 000

Commemorative coins of 10 and 2 Hryvnias denomination are dedicated to the only species of dormouse (eliomys quercinus) in the fauna of Ukraine, which is occasionally met in the coniferous-deciduous forests of plains, mountains and in the gardens of marshy woodlands and forest-steppe (Rivno, Kyiv and Cherkasy regions).
The garden dormouse is active at dusk and at night. In winter the animal is in hibernation till April. The nests are built mostly in hollows and among the roots of the trees. The preferable food is seeds of the trees, fruits, molluscs, insects, eggs, baby birds and small rodents. In the period from 1900 till 1980 there were found out only eight species of eliomys quercinus on the territory of Ukraine. In 1980 eliomys quercinus was included into the Red Book of Ukraine.
The coin continues "Flora and Fauna"series
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On the coin obverse there is the Small State Emblem of Ukraine in the garland made of different species of flora and fauna. The inscriptions in four lines:
ÓÊÐÀ¯ÍÀ, 10, ÃÐÈÂÅÍÜ, 1999- on the silver coin, as well as designation of metal and its standard - Ag 925 and its pure weight - 31.1;
ÓÊÐÀ¯ÍÀ, 2, ÃÐÈÂͲ, 1999 - on the German silver coin.

On the coin reverse there is a picture of a garden dormouse sitting on a raspberry twig and the circular legend: ÑÎÍß ÑÀÄÎÂÀ òà ELIOMYS QUERCINUS.


Artist and sculptor: Volodymyr Demyanenko.

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