Front: within setting made of a conventionalized vegetable ornamentation there are inscriptions: НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК/ УКРАЇНИ/ 5/ ГРИВЕНЬ (National Bank /of Ukraine/ 5/ Hryvnia); above there is the small National Emblem of Ukraine, beneath: 2008, the coin issue year, as well as Ag 925, the designation of metal; 15,55, its weight in fineness and the NBU Mint logotype.
Back: there is depicted a rat made in a technique of a cheap popular print within a vegetable ornamentation setting (a rat eye is decorated with 0,01carat diamond). Both above and below this composition there is a depiction of contour figures of all 12 symbols of the Oriental calendar.
Designer: Volodymyr Taran, Oleksandr Kharuk, Serhii Kharuk
Engraver: Anatolii Demianenko
There are 2 varieties of the coin. There are many differences between them, for example, different tail designs. But the main difference - the right lower bunch: without "holes" (this is the most common type) and with "holes" (more rare).
