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This coin celebrates the Eurasian lynx. The 30-kilometer exclusion zone and the zone of mandatory resettlement, which was designated the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve on 26 April 2016, has become a special kind of breeding reserve not only for common species of animal, but also for endangered ones. The lynx is one such rare species that are now hard to find in the wild. In the past, lynxes were widespread in Polesia (a natural and historical region that starts from the farthest edge of Central Europe, encompasses Eastern Europe, including Eastern Poland, the Belarus–Ukraine border, and Western Russia). But the destruction of forests and hunting by humans meant that the animal became rare as far back as the 19th century. Eurasian lynxes are on Ukraine’s list of endangered species. They are also protected under Appendix II of the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Obverse: above is Ukraine’s small coat of arms, under which is the legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine); to the right of the coat the coat of arms is the coin’s face value 5/ГРИВЕНЬ (5/hryvnias); in the center is a symbolic wheel of life that marks rebirth of nature: stylized international radioactive sign shrouded in leaves surrounded by animals that are increasing their populations in the 30-kilometer exclusion zone that became a kind of a breeding reserve for black stork, Przewalski’s horse, lynx, bison, moose, and brown bear; there is a circular legend against a smooth background, reading: ЧОРНОБИЛЬСЬКИЙ РАДІАЦІЙНО-ЕКОЛОГІЧНИЙ БІОСФЕРНИЙ ЗАПОВІДНИК (Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve) (to the left) CHORNOBYL RADIATION AND ECOLOGICAL BIOSPHERE RESERVE; below is the coin’s issue year 2023; above is the mint mark of the NBU’s Banknote Printing and Minting Works.

Reverse: against the backdrop of a landscape there is an image of a lynx (pad-printed), above which, to the left, against a smooth background, is the following legend: РИСЬ/ЄВРАЗІЙСЬКА/EURASIAN LYNX (Eurasian/lynx/Eurasian lynx); above is a lynx with its cubs.

Nominal: 5 UAH

Circulation start date: 26.04.2023 
Diameter, mm.: 35
Mass, g: 16.54

Quality: special uncirculated

Matyerial: german silver

Coins in circulation: 20 000

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