Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1000 Hryven
| Issuer | Derzhavna Skarbnytsia (State Treasury of Ukraine) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | БІЛЕТ Державної Скарбниці на ТИСЯЧУ ГРИВЕНЬ 1918 Директор Державної скарбниці Бухальтер Серія X Білет дійсний по 1 січня 1933 р. Купон білета Державної Скарбниці дійсний на протязі 10 літ з 1 липня 1920 р. 18 гривень Серія X |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on the same cream-toned paper, with a matching ornate letterpress border repeating the rope-and-wreath frame. The denomination numeral '1000' appears in each corner within guilloche panels. The central field is occupied entirely by the full Ukrainian text of the 'Постанова про білети Державної Скарбниці 1918 року' (Regulation on State Treasury Notes of 1918), set in eleven numbered paragraphs of small Cyrillic text in two columns, with the closing line 'Відсотки нараховуються з 1 січня 1918 р.' A faint underprint of large numerals '1000' is visible in the left portion of the field. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Derzhavna Skarbnytsia series was issued by the Ukrainian People's Republic during a period of extraordinary political fragmentation — between the collapse of the Russian Empire, the German occupation under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and the advancing Bolshevik forces. These treasury notes were a functional necessity for a government that controlled printing facilities intermittently and for months at a time had no stable territorial base from which to enforce any currency at all.
The 1000 Hryven is the highest denomination of the 1918 Skarbnytsia issues. High-denomination notes from this series are disproportionately scarce in genuinely circulated condition — not because they were hoarded, but because the political situation that produced them collapsed before most could reach widespread use.