Received these Ukrainian commemorative coins couple of weeks back. Very dull designs IMO.
Aditya.
Ukraine has excellent designers and the coins of Ukraine were several times recognized as the best coin of the year in the world. Look on the internet.
But these coins have a different purpose - to show historical facts.
If you do not have time to find additional information, I will tell you about these coins here.
Coin number 1.
The obverse shows the ship "Volya" (this can be translated from Ukrainian as "Freedom".).
The ship was built in Nikolaev 04/02/1914.
Type - battleship.
He was a member of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
In 1918, after the proclamation of the independent Ukrainian People's Republic, the Ukrainian flag was hoisted on the battleship.
After the Bolsheviks seized Ukraine, the battleship came under the command of the White Army and in 1920 participated in the evacuation of the White Guards from the Crimea.
The battleship was based in Tunisia and in 1936 was dismantled for scrap.
In 1942, the Germans installed a few guns of this ship on the battery "Mirus", on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel,