| Series: Outstanding Personalities of Ukraine |
| The coin is dedicated to Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevskyi (1769-1838), an outstanding Ukrainian writer, public figure, the first classicist of modern Ukrainian literature, author of the famous works – the poem `Eneida` (Aeneid), the play `Natalka Poltavka` (Natalka from Poltava) and the vaudeville `Moskal-Charivnyk` (The Muscovite-Sorcerer). |
 | On the obverse above there is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine); below there is the coin face value 5 ГРИВЕНЬ (5 hryvnias), and in the centre – the conventionalized composition representing Aeneas, a boat, a fragment of a column from Troy and an helmet with the coin issue year indication 2009 thereunder. |  | On the reverse there is a portrait of Ivan Kotliarevskyi; to the left and right thereof there are lines from T.Shevchenko`s poem `To Kotliarevskyi`s Imperishable Memory` …Поки сонце з неба сяє, Тебе не забудуть! (While the sun in the sky shines, You will not be forgotten!) and semicircular inscriptions ІВАН КОТЛЯРЕВСЬКИЙ (Ivan Kotliarevskyi) above and 1769-1838 (years of his life) below. | |
| Designer: Sviatoslav Ivanenko |
| Engraver: Sviatoslav Ivanenko |
