kopiika

Example Sentences

• "Here, an auction began. Everything was sold at comically low prices: kopiiky. The bedding, clothing, dishes, and all other household wares were actually in fairly sad shape."
• "UKRAINE […] 10 Kopiiok 1994"
• "“De-ear woman, give me something for a ro-oll, at least,” lilted an elderly beggarwoman, holding out an empty tin can. The grey-haired woman had a few hryvnias in her wallet. Shouldn’t there be some kopiikas, too? Yes, here’s twenty-five. She wouldn’t give fifty, though. Both of the old women’s hands shook. The small coin fell to the ground."
• "Other Ukrainian newspapers, he noted, are subsidized by companies close to the presidential administration and the current government, and sell for only 5 or 6 kopiiky (less than 2 cents U.S.) per issue."
• "The first Ukrainian stamps, issued 1 March 1992, had a face value of 15 kopiiky."
• "The local goldsmiths also often expressed their creativity in coin-made earrings. The collection holds two pairs of earrings made of «10 kopiiok» coin dated 1910 and the coin «25 pennia» dated 1917. The last one had pendants with wings. In the left-land Cherkasy region such earrings could be hung over with «butterflies», «wings», and «balls»."