Catalog
100 Hryven
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 100 Hryven (100 UAH) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears a portrait vignette of Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), the celebrated Ukrainian poet, artist, and intellectual regarded as the founder of modern Ukrainian literature, positioned at center-right against a guilloche underprint. The denomination and country name appear in Cyrillic lettering, with the value numeral repeated in the corners. Decorative borders frame the composition in a classical intaglio style. |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 100 ГОЛОВА ПРАВЛІННЯ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ БУДИНОК ВЕРХОВНОЇ РАДИ УКРАЇНИ СТО ГРИВЕНЬ 1992 100 100 (Translation: 100 100 CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD NATIONAL BANK OF UKRAINE HOUSE OF THE VERKHOVNA RADA OF UKRAINE ONE HUNDRED HRYVNIAS 1992 100 100) |
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Ukraine's first post-Soviet banknote series was printed in Canada because no domestic security printing facility existed at independence — a practical problem shared by several former Soviet republics scrambling to establish sovereign currencies in 1991–92. The Canadian Bank Note Company had the capacity and the clearance; the contract was straightforward.
Engravers Maksymov and Lopata were Ukrainian artists, their work shipped to Ottawa for production — an arrangement that kept the cultural authorship domestic while the technical execution stayed abroad. P#107B is a signature variety within the inaugural 1992 hryvnia issue, distinguished from 107A by the signing officials rather than any design change.