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10 Shahiv
| Issuer | Ukrainian People's Republic |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | УКРАЇНСЬКА НАРОДНЯ РЕСПУБЛІКА 10 ШАГІВ 10 (Translation: UKRAINIAN PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC 10 SHAHS 10) |
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| Reverse lettering | Ходить нарівні з дзвінкою монетою. (Translation: Used along with the ringing coin.) |
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The 10 Shahiv was issued by the Ukrainian People's Republic during one of the most chaotic periods in modern European history — the UPR was simultaneously fighting Bolshevik forces, negotiating the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and attempting to build functioning state institutions from scratch. Small-denomination notes like this one were produced on cardboard stock specifically to substitute for hoarded copper and silver coinage, which had effectively vanished from circulation by early 1918.
The cardboard construction makes survivors particularly vulnerable to corner splits and delamination. Intact examples are harder to find than the scarcity figures alone suggest.