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100 Karbovantsiv
| Issuer | Ukrainian People's Republic |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 116 x 72 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | УКРАЇНСЬКА НАРОДНЯ РЕСПУБЛІКА ДЕРЖАВНИЙ КРЕДИТОВИЙ БІЛЕТ СТО КАРБОВАНЦІВ 1 КАРБ. МІСТИТЬ 17,424 ДОЛІ ЩИРОГО ЗОЛОТА Директор Державного Банку Української Народної Республіки Скарбник РОКУ 1917 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and olive tones with an elaborate guilloche and foliate border framing a large central numeral 100, beneath which a decorative vignette of a wheat sheaf in a basket is rendered in the Ukrainian folk art tradition. Trilingual text panels appear in Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish, with an additional line of Yiddish script at the centre bottom. Smaller text blocks at left and right carry legal tender and anti-counterfeiting warnings. |
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The Ukrainian People's Republic declared independence in January 1918, but this note precedes formal independence — it was issued in late 1917 under the Central Rada while Ukraine still nominally operated within a collapsing Russian state. The rush to establish a distinct currency was explicitly political, a signal of administrative separation before the military situation had resolved either way.
Designed by Heorhiy Narbut, one of the most accomplished graphic artists of the Ukrainian modernist movement. His involvement was not incidental — the Rada actively recruited him to give the new currency visual authority it couldn't yet claim through institutions.