The hryvnia with agate in the skin

UAH 5 bath agate irregular shape in white leather.

The length of the cord is adjustable.

Torque - is a neck decoration in the form of a Hoop. It was common in many Nations. Hryvnia known since the bronze age (III-IV Millennium BC)

Some of the peoples of the hryvnia were mostly men, others women.

In the middle ages, the hryvnia was in use in the Western and Eastern Slavs, Scandinavians and many of the Volga, Kama, Oka, Baltic tribes.

At that time in Russia, the hryvnia was worn as a badge of honor and at the same time decoration. Russian vigilantes in X—XI centuries received cervical hryvnia as a reward. In the XII—XIV centuries. torc gradually turned into a very female decoration. In the XII—XIV centuries. the torque was in Russia women's decoration as the feudal lords and the peasants. In the XVI century in Moscow Russia it was part of the wedding attire of the groom and bride.

To the XIV-XV centuries, the hryvnia is falling out of favour and returned to the XX century in the works of modern artists, jewelers in the form of a stylized decoration.