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500 Hryven
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2006-2015 |
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| Currency | Hryvnia (1996-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 П`ЯТСОТ ГРИВЕНЬ УКРАЇНА Не ра́вное всѣмъ ра́венство. Льются изъ разныхъ тру́бокъ, разные токи: въ ра́зные Григорій Сковорода 1722-1794 НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ Голова 500 (Translation: 500 FIVE HUNDRED HRYVNIAS UKRAINE Not equal to all equality. They flow from different pipes, different currents: into different Hryhorii Skovoroda 1722-1794 NATIONAL BANK OF UKRAINE Head 500) |
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| Protection description | Hryhorii Skovoroda portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Ukraine's 500 hryvnia denomination has historically been the highest-value note in regular circulation for much of the post-independence period, making it a workhorse of large transactions rather than a curiosity. The series spanning 2006 to 2015 reflects a decade in which Ukraine cycled through severe economic turbulence — the 2008–2009 financial crisis hit the hryvnia hard, with the currency losing roughly 60% of its value against the dollar, sharply eroding the real purchasing power this denomination was meant to carry.
Cotton substrate and a security thread are the primary anti-counterfeiting measures — modest by contemporary European standards, which drew periodic criticism from Ukrainian banking oversight bodies during the series' run.