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200 000 Karbovantsiv Hero-City of Odesa
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Weight | 14.35 g |
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| Obverse description | At center, the Small State Emblem of Ukraine (trident) is displayed within a beaded inner circle, flanked by guelder-rose (viburnum) sprays, each bearing five leaves and three clusters of berries — the upper cluster with seven berries, the middle with five, and the lower with six. The date of issue, 1995, appears above the emblem in the field. Below the emblem, a two-line legend in Cyrillic reads the face value 200000 КАРБОВАНЦІВ, with the numeral divided by the beaded ornamentation. The outer legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ encircles the design between the beaded border and the rim, separated from КАРБОВАНЦІВ by rhombic ornamental marks. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued in the final stretch of Ukraine's karbovanets period, this coin appeared roughly two years before the currency was replaced by the hryvnia in September 1996 — a transition that wiped out the karbovanets entirely, rendering the denomination obsolete almost immediately after minting. The 200,000 karbovanets face value reflects the cumulative inflation Ukraine suffered following independence, when consumer prices rose by several thousand percent between 1991 and 1994.
Odesa received the Soviet "Hero City" designation in 1965, marking its 73-day defense against Romanian and German forces in 1941.