This set, which consists of four silver commemorative coins, celebrates Cossack regalia – attributes of power. These regalia are associated with a heroic age of Ukrainian history – an age that has become an inexhaustible source of national dignity, love for freedom and state-building aspirations. Over the centuries, historical tradition has shaped the list of the Zaporozhian Army’s regalia. These include a flag, a mace, a bunchuk (a pole with circularly placed horse tail hairs arranged at the top), a seal, a pernach (a type of flanged mace), kettledrums, surma-horns, and an ink-pot. Hetman seals – integral attributes of the power of hetmans Hryhorii Loboda, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Petro Doroshenko and Ivan Skoropadskyi – provided the foundation of the coin set, showing the Cossack age from its birth to its dusk, while also symbolizing powerful historical periods. This set aims to draw people’s attention to the heroic Cossack age, which, for Ukrainians, still remains a source of spiritual feeling and valor inspiring them to defend their land from external enemies.

Obverse: above is Ukraine’s small coat of arms, below which is the legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine); the three coins on the left have the face value 10/ ГРИВЕНЬ (10/hryvnias) indicated on the left, while the fourth one on the right has the face value indicated on the right; beneath are the coin issue year, the fine weight of each coin and the metal and its fineness – 2021/31.1/Ag 999, as well as the mint mark of the NBU’s Banknote Printing and Minting Works; in the center of each coin are the following compositions: Cossack Mamai – a Ukrainian folkloric hero, who preserves the historical memory of the Ukrainian people and affirms the ideal of a peaceful guardian of his land (on the top coin). On the other three coins are Cossack regalia and other artifacts that symbolize the periods of the Cossack age, enrich the historical background and conjure up the overall atmosphere of the age.

Reverse: there are hetman seals (decorative element – local gilding) – one of the important Cossack regalia of the hetmans Hryhorii Loboda, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Petro Doroshenko and Ivan Skoropadskyi. The seals date from the 16th to the 18th centuries and are associated with various stages of Cossack history; there are the following legends: КОЗАЦЬКІ (Cossack) (above) and КЛЕЙНОДИ (regalia) (below); the names of the seal owners are around each seal.