Description:
Obverse
Above is the legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine) and the years - 1867 2017 (pad printed); in the center against a smooth background is the theater's building; beneath are the following legends - 5/ГРИВЕНЬ (5/hryvnias). The coin has the mint mark of the NBU Banknote Printing and Minting Works (below to the right).
Reverse
There is the following conventionalized composition: an auditorium, above which are heraldic griffons holding a lyre, which symbolizes the art of music, and the legends: НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ АКАДЕМІЧНИЙ ТЕАТР (semicircular above), ОПЕРИ ТА БАЛЕТУ УКРАЇНИ ІМ. Т. Г. ШЕВЧЕНКА (under the griffons) (The Taras Shevchenko National Opera of Ukraine), and 150 РОКІВ (150 years) (beneath).
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