Catalogo
| Emittente | National Bank of Ukraine |
|---|---|
| Anno | 1994 |
| Tipo | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Valore | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Valuta | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Composizione | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Dimensioni | 126 × 57 mm |
| Forma | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Stampatore | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Disegnatore/i | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Incisore/i | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| In circolazione fino al | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Riferimento/i | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Descrizione del dritto | Central vignette presents the Saint Volodymyr Monument in Kyiv, a neoclassical column surmounted by a statue of Prince Volodymyr the Great holding a cross, set against a light guilloche underprint. A trident shield appears at left, with the denomination and issuer inscriptions arranged across the note in Cyrillic lettering. |
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| Legenda del dritto | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Descrizione del rovescio | The principal vignette presents the façade of the National Opera House of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv, rendered in a classical engraved style with a guilloche underprint filling the background. A trident shield is positioned at right, with the numeral denomination repeated on both sides of the design. |
| Legenda del rovescio | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Firma/e | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Tipo di protezione | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Descrizione della protezione | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Varianti | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Commenti |
Ukraine's hyperinflation in the early 1990s was severe enough that denominations climbed from single karbovantsi to hundreds of thousands within just a few years of independence. This 200,000 karbovantsiv note was among the highest values issued in the series before the entire currency was replaced by the hryvnia in September 1996 at a conversion rate of 100,000 karbovantsiv to one hryvnia — effectively erasing the nominal value of notes like this overnight.
The Canadian Bank Note Company contract was part of a broader pattern of newly independent post-Soviet states turning to Western security printers while domestic infrastructure remained unreliable. Ukraine had no established banknote printing capacity of its own at the time.