Description:
This coin celebrates the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (FISU) – a leading component of Ukraine’s security and defense forces. The FISU provides information for strategic decision-making in the foreign policy, economic, military, scientific, technical, information, environmental and cybersecurity spheres, contributing to the strengthening of national security and sovereignty of the state. This commemorative coin emphasizes the importance of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine and its contribution to the protection of the country’s national interests.
Obverse: above is Ukraine’s small coat of arms. Around the perimeter of the coin’s circle, the first three words of the name of the agency are encrypted in Morse code. These words are duplicated in the lower part of the coin: СЛУЖБА ЗОВНІШНЬОЇ РОЗВІДКИ УКРАЇНИ (Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine). The center of the coin depicts a cross, which is the main element of the new symbols and departmental awards of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. In the center of the cross is the trident (a state symbol used by Kyiv Rus Prince Volodymyr the Great), framed by the service’s motto in Latin: OMNIA VINCIT VERITAS (Truth Conquers All Things). The outlines of the continents of the globe around the center symbolize the spatial scope of the service’s intelligence activities. Beneath, to the left, are the mint mark of the NBU’s Banknote Printing and Minting Works, the coin’s face value 5, and the graphic symbol of the hryvnia. The legend УКРАЇНА (Ukraine) and the coin’s issue year 2025 are beneath to the right.
Reverse: there is a stylized trident, around which the words of a well-known Ukrainian political figure are encrypted in numbers. The encryption was based on the code of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and a code word chosen by the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. From the day the commemorative coin is issued into circulation, the FISU will announce a competition among decryption specialists. Within a certain period of time, they will be able to decipher the encoded message. The text of the decrypted message will be published in the description of the coin six months after the date of its introduction into circulation. The terms and conditions of the competition and its results will be available on the FISU’s official website.
Painter: Idea invented by Yurii Ladnyi. Designer – Serhii Bieliaiev. Design adapted by Tetiana Baluta
Sculptor: Volodymyr Demianenko
Coins in circulation (planned/actual): 75000/75000
Mass, g:
16.54
Diameter, mm.: 35
Quality: special uncirculated
Coin edges: corrugated