Catalog
50 Hryven
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Currency | Hryvnia (1996-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 УКРАЇНА МИХАЙЛО ГРУШЕВСЬКИЙ П`ЯТДЕСЯТ ГРИВЕНЬ 50 (Translation: 50 UKRAINE MYKHAILO HRUSHEVSKYI FIFTY HRYVNIAS 50) |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a detailed architectural vignette of the Central Council building (Teacher's House) in Kyiv, constructed in 1912 to a design by architect Pavlo Alioshyn, the seat of Ukraine's first national government. The structure is rendered in precise line engraving set against a guilloche background, with the denomination numerals 50 repeated at each corner. Inscriptions identifying the National Bank of Ukraine and the building name frame the central vignette, with the year 1992 at lower center. |
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Ukraine's first post-independence banknote series was contracted to the Canadian Bank Note Company before the country had established any domestic printing capacity — a practical necessity that carried its own political symbolism for a newly sovereign state. The 1992 coupons (karbovantsi) had been a stopgap; these hryvni were the statement.
Engravers Borys Maksymov and Vasyl Lopata were Ukrainian nationals whose involvement was deliberate — CBNC incorporated their work into Ottawa-produced plates, an unusual collaborative arrangement that gave the series a genuine domestic artistic claim despite being printed abroad. Pick 107A belongs to the first signature variety of this denomination.