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30 Shahiv
| Issuer | Ukrainian People's Republic |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Karbovanets (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | 30 ШАГІВ 30 УКРАЇНСЬКА НАРОДНЯ РЕСПУБЛІКА (Translation: 30 SHAHIV 30 / UKRAINIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC) |
| Reverse description | Plain light ground within a simple rectangular frame, with the Ukrainian trident (tryzub) state arms printed in black at upper centre. Below the arms, a four-line Cyrillic text inscription states the note's legal tender status. The layout is austere, with no guilloche or ornamental underprint. |
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The Ukrainian People's Republic issued this note during an extraordinarily compressed window of independence — the UNR existed as a functioning state for only a few years before Soviet consolidation ended it. The small cardboard fractional notes of 1918 were a direct response to a coin shortage so severe that the new government had no time to establish a proper mint. These functioned as shahi denominations, subdivisions of the hryvnia that the UNR had formally adopted in January 1918 to replace the Russian ruble entirely.
The cardboard stock was a deliberate material choice given wartime paper constraints. It wore poorly in circulation.