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20 Karbovantsiv
| Issuer | Ukrainian SSR |
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| Year | 1990-1992 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Consumer card (Картка споживача) of the Ukrainian SSR for 20 karbovantsiv, valid December 1990, with a validity period of 6 months. The central registry panel bears fields for institution name, surname, director, and chief accountant, with an official circular stamp. Surrounding the registry are 16 detachable coupons: twelve valued at 1 krb. and four at 5 krb., each inscribed УРСР / ВНА / КУПОН НА / [value] / грудень. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse shows the mirror impression of the obverse layout through the paper, with the full sheet of coupons and central registry panel visible in reverse reading. The Kyiv printing house imprint is discernible in the centre panel. No additional design elements are present on the reverse. |
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The Kyivska Notna Fabryka — literally the Kyiv Music Note Factory — was a sheet music printing plant pressed into banknote production as the Soviet Union's central currency supply collapsed. These karbovanets coupons were never intended as a real currency; they were rationing instruments, introduced to prevent residents of other republics from buying up consumer goods in Ukrainian stores as the ruble lost credibility. The irony that a music printer was producing a nation's circulating medium was not lost on contemporaries.
The "b" suffix in Pick 68b distinguishes a paper stock variation — the series ran across multiple printings as demand outstripped the factory's original capacity.