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50 Karbovantsiv
| Issuer | Ukrainian SSR |
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| Year | 1990-1992 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Consumer ration card (Картка споживача) of the Ukrainian SSR, issued November 1990 for a six-month validity period, comprising a grid of 28 individual coupons of varying denominations (1 and 3 karbovanets) in Cyrillic letterpress. A central registry panel bears the institution name, handwritten entries, and an official circular ink stamp. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light-green paper reverse showing blind impressions of the coupon grid through the sheet, with a single circular official ink stamp visible near the centre, and no additional printed design or inscriptions. |
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This note was issued not by a sovereign Ukraine but by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic during the final, chaotic years of the USSR — a transitional instrument introduced as a coupon supplement to the Soviet ruble, which had become subject to hoarding and shortages. Moscow's decision to restrict ruble issuance to the republics pushed local authorities toward parallel currency systems. Ukraine's coupon series, of which this is part, was never intended as permanent currency.
After independence in 1991, these coupons became the de facto national currency by default — a stopgap that lingered until the hryvnia's eventual introduction years later. High inflation rendered the face value economically irrelevant well before withdrawal.