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5 Karabovantsi Kiev Ukrainbank
| Issuer | Vseukrainskyi Kooperatyvnyi Bank (Ukrainbank), Kyiv Branch |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on cream paper, the note is framed by an ornate folkstyle border of stylised floral and berry motifs with cross medallions at the corners. The upper portion bears the Cyrillic text of the issuing institution in letterpress, with the bank name УКРАЙНБАНК rendered in large bold script. Below, the payment obligation text and denomination — карб. 5 (п'ять карбованців) золот. — are set in a combination of cursive and printed lettering, with the cheque serial number Чек Ч. 4003 at the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Рах. Ч. Всеукраїнський Кооперативний Банк «УКРАЙНБАНК» Київська філія Прошено сиплатити пред'явникові цього карб. 5 (п'ять карбованців) золот. Списавши цю суму з нашого біжучого рахунку Чек Ч. 4003 |
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Ukrainbank — the All-Ukrainian Cooperative Bank — was established in 1922 as part of the Soviet NEP experiment, which briefly permitted quasi-commercial banking structures within the cooperative sector. This note is a product of that narrow window: not a state treasury instrument, but a scrip issued by a cooperative financial institution operating under Soviet sanction in Kyiv.
The karabovanets' unit here is the NEP-era Ukrainian ruble equivalent, distinct from the earlier 1917–1920 Rada-period karbovanets'. The Kyiv branch's authority to issue such obligations was curtailed as Soviet centralization tightened through the late 1920s, making this a short-lived series by institutional design rather than accident.
Pick S328 is sparsely documented in major reference collections.