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5 Karabovantsiv Zhytomyr
| Issuer | City of Zhytomyr |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light blue guilloche underprint with repeating Cyrillic letterforms throughout the field. A central vignette at upper centre presents the arms of Zhytomyr — a fortified tower — within an ornate cartouche flanked by laurel branches and ribbon swags. The denomination numeral '5' appears in dark circular panels at left and right, with the value inscription ПЯТЬ КАРБОВАНЦІВ in bold Cyrillic across the centre, the issuing authority РОЗМІННИЙ БІЛЕТ МІСТА ЖИТОМИРА below, and a cautionary anti-counterfeiting legend along the lower border; two manuscript signatures appear above the lower panel. |
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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. |
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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.