1 000 000 Karbovantsiv Hryhoriy Skovoroda

Skovoroda was an 18th-century Ukrainian philosopher, poet, and wandering ascetic who spent the last quarter of his life literally walking from village to village across Left-Bank Ukraine, refusing permanent employment and sleeping in the homes of anyone who would have him. He died in 1794 near Kharkiv, reportedly digging his own grave the morning of his death. Ukraine issued this coin in 1996, just five years into independence, during a period when the karbovanets itself was already being phased out — replaced by the hryvnia that same year, making the denomination obsolete almost immediately upon striking.