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5 Karabovantsiv Zhytomyr
| Issuer | City of Zhytomyr |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Light blue guilloche underprint with repeating Cyrillic letterforms matching the obverse. The reverse is dominated by a large ornate text panel framed by a decorative border with circular rosette medallions at each corner, each containing the numeral '5'. Bold horizontal bands at top and bottom carry the denomination inscription ПЯТЬ КАРБОВАНЦІВ, while a large ghost numeral '5' forms a watermark-style underprint behind the Ukrainian-language redemption text. |
| Reverse lettering | ПЯТЬ КАРБОВАНЦІВ 5 ФАЛЬШУВАННЯ КАРАЄТЬСЯ ЗАКОНОМ |
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Zhytomyr issued its own emergency scrip in 1918 during a period when central monetary authority in Ukraine had effectively collapsed. The city cycled through several occupying powers that year — German forces, the Ukrainian People's Republic, and briefly the Bolsheviks — and locally printed notes like this one filled the vacuum left by chronic shortage of small-denomination currency. The kaربovanets' itself was the UPR's unit of account, but municipal issues operated largely outside any formal redemption framework.
Pick S343 belongs to a broader class of Ukrainian local emergency issues from 1918, most printed under severe material constraints. Survival rates vary sharply by issuer.