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50 Karbovantsiv
| Issuer | State Treasury of Ukraine |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Karbovanets (1917-1918) |
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| Obverse lettering | ЗНАК ДЕРЖАВНОЇ СКАРБНИЦІ 50 КАРБОВАНЦІВ Директор Державної Скарбниці Ходить нарівні з кредитовими білетами |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 КАРБОВАНЦІВ 50 За фальшування Карається Законом |
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This note belongs to the first wave of Ukrainian currency issued following the proclamation of the Ukrainian People's Republic in January 1917 — a state that existed in genuinely contested territory, printing money while simultaneously fighting Bolshevik forces, German occupation, and internal political fragmentation. The 50 karbovanets denomination was designed by Heorhiy Narbut, one of the most distinguished graphic artists of the period, whose work drew heavily on Ukrainian baroque motifs and early Cossack-era ornamental traditions.
Narbut died of typhus in 1920, aged 35, never seeing the republic whose visual identity he had largely shaped.