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1000 Hryven
| Issuer | Ukrainian State (Ukrainska Derzhava) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 1000 Hryven (500) |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue-green note with an elaborate geometric lathe-work border bearing repeated corner and side denomination numerals 1000. The right two-thirds of the field display the large bold numerals 1000 and the Cyrillic text ГРИВЕНЬ on a pale ochre guilloche underprint. A tall ornate cartouche on the left contains a Cyrillic text block setting out the legal tender declaration of the Ukrainian State credit notes, with a smaller panel below stating the gold content of one hryvnia. |
| Reverse lettering | 1000 ГРИВЕНЬ Кредитові білети Української Держави забезпечуються всім надбанням Держави. Краєва Область Української Держави зобов'язана їх приймати нарівні з монетою сього. За фальшування державних кредитових білетів виновні каратися позбавленням волі з тяж. роб. ув. 1 Гривня містить 8,712 долі щирого золота |
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The Ukrainska Derzhava — the Ukrainian State under Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky — existed for less than eight months in 1918, a German-backed regime that replaced the Central Rada in April and collapsed in December when the German occupation ended. This 1000 Hryven note belongs to that brief window, issued by an authority that was printing currency faster than it could establish the administrative machinery to back it.
The series was printed in quantity, and the 1000 Hryven denomination saw genuine circulation during the chaotic monetary conditions of the Ukrainian Civil War period. Notes from competing authorities — the Central Rada, the Directory, Soviet issues — circulated simultaneously, making face value largely a matter of who held the guns locally that week.