Ukraine's first post-Soviet coinage was struck in 1992 at the Italian Mint in Rome — a telling detail about the state of Ukrainian industrial infrastructure in the immediate aftermath of independence. Domestic minting capacity at the Luhansk Cartridge Plant would not come fully online for coin production until later in the decade.
Ukraine's first post-Soviet coinage was struck in 1992 at the Italian Mint in Rome — a telling detail about the state of Ukrainian industrial infrastructure in the immediate aftermath of independence. Domestic minting capacity at the Luhansk Cartridge Plant would not come fully online for coin production until later in the decade.