"The Garden of Divine Songs" - 300th anniversary of the birth of Hryhorii
Skovoroda - Silver Coin 2 oz - Ukraine 2022
SPIRITUAL TREASURES OF UKRAINE SERIE
Commemorative Coin "The Garden of Divine Songs"
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CERTIFICATE
Coins in circulation: 2500
Weight of pure precious metals, gramme: 62.2
Diameter, mm.: 50
Quality: special
uncirculated
In
circulation since November 22, 2022.
Certificate issued by National Bank of Ukraine .
This
banknote celebrates the 300th anniversary of the birth of Hryhorii
Skovoroda – a prominent Ukrainian philosopher, poet and teacher,
who studied at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Skovoroda is one of the
foremost figures in Ukrainian philosophy and literature. Skovoroda,
whose thoughts focused on the vital and existentially important
problems of human existence, remains an influential figure, thinker
and writer. An organic combination of personal and public motifs is
the most characteristic feature of Skovoroda’s poetry. The
collection of poems “The Garden of Divine Songs” is a kind of
lyrical diary of Skovoroda, describing events in the poet’s life,
as well as his moral and philosophical reflections on the meaning of
life, true happiness, goodness, honesty, and so on. The collection
consists of 30 songs.
Obverse: beneath is Ukraine’s small coat
of arms, to the left of the coat of arms are the legend УКРАЇНА
(Ukraine) and the coin’s issue year – 2022; to the right of the
coat of arms are the coin’s face value – 20 and the graphic
symbol of the hryvnia; the main composition depicts a symbolic
stylized fountain – an allegory of God – which fills various
vessels with water – metaphors for humans and the human soul. On
the one hand, the vessels are of different sizes, which makes them
unequal. On the other hand, they are all filled with water, and
therefore equal. Each vessel has a different volume, but receives
enough water to be filled with it (a plastic representation of
Skovoroda’s graphic picture “Equality Unequal for All.” Above
the life-giving fountain, grow the “paradise trees” of the garden
of divine songs, around which lines from the collection “The Garden
of Divine Songs” are inscribed: EACH CITY HAS ITS CUSTOMS AND ITS
LAWS, EACH HEAD ITS OWN INNATE INTELLIGENCE, EACH HEART SEEKS LOVING
FOR ITS OWN SWEET CAUSE, EACH PALATE SAVORS THROUGH ITS OWN FINE
SENSE. WITHIN MY MIND A SINGLE THOUGHT INTENSE SEEKS HOW TO LIVE, AND
DIE, IN INNOCENCE... O FEARFUL DEATH! THOU SCYTHE THAT SLITS ALL
LIFE! EVEN THE HEADS OF KINGS THOU SPAREST NOT. ALIKE TO CZAR AND
PEASANT COMES THY KNIFE, DEVOURING ALL, LIKE STRAW IN BLAZES HOT.
ONLY THAT MAN HER SHARP STEEL NEED NOT FEAR WHOSE CONSCIENCE, AT HIS
DEATH, IS CRYSTAL CLEAR. above is the following legend: САД
БОЖЕСТВЕННИХ ПІСЕНЬ (Garden of Divine
Songs).
Reverse: there is the following metaphoric composition:
a young man sitting under a cherry tree and playing a pipe; next to
the young man is an open book – Skovoroda’s symbolic world; to
the left of the young man are the legends 300 РОКІВ (300 years)
and ГРИГОРІЙ (Hryhorii) (vertically); to the right of the
young man is the vertical legend СКОВОРОДА (Skovoroda);
around the young man are smooth symbolic outlines that are trying to
catch the philosopher; above is the semicircular legend: СВІТ
ЛОВИВ МЕНЕ, ТА НЕ СПІЙМАВ (The world tried to
catch me, but failed).