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10 000 Karbovantsiv
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 1993-1996 |
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| In circulation to | 17 September 1996 |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents the Saint Volodymyr Monument in Kyiv, rendered in fine linear style against a guilloche underprint. The Ukrainian state emblem — a trident shield — appears at the left, with the denomination and issuing authority inscribed in Cyrillic across the face of the note. The year of issue is indicated at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a fine linear vignette of the facade of the National Bank of Ukraine building, with a trident shield positioned at the right. The denomination numeral is repeated in each corner, set against a guilloche underprint. |
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Ukraine's early post-Soviet karbovanets issues were plagued by hyperinflation so severe that the 10,000 karbovantsiv note, large a denomination as it sounds, was by the mid-1990s barely sufficient for a single bus fare in Kyiv. The karbovanets itself was always a transitional currency — introduced in 1992 to replace Soviet rubles while the permanent hryvnia was prepared — and the entire series was demonetized in September 1996 when the hryvnia finally launched at a conversion rate of 100,000 karbovantsiv to 1 hryvnia.
The P#94 was printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company in Ottawa under contract, one of several foreign printing agreements Ukraine relied on while its own Banknote Printing and Minting Works in Kiev was still being established.