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2 Hryvni
| Issuer | Ukrainian People's Republic |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 2 Hryvni (1) |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in dark green on a buff ground, with the large numeral "2" at left within a geometric guilloche panel and the trident arms of the Ukrainian People's Republic at upper right within a similar panel. A central text block set over a fine foliate underprint states the denomination and its gold equivalent, flanked by the signatures of the Director of the State Bank (Директор Державного Банку) at lower left and the Treasurer (Скарбник) at lower right. The issuing authority inscription УКРАЇНСЬКА НАРОДНЯ РЕСПУБЛІКА appears along the top, with ДЕРЖАВНИЙ КРЕДИТОВИЙ БІЛЕТ along the bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | УКРАЇНСЬКА НАРОДНЯ РЕСПУБЛІКА ГРИВНІ 2 ДВІ ГРИВНІ РІВНІ СКАРБОВАНЦЮ ГРИВНЯ МІСТИТЬ 8,712 ДОЛІ ЧИСТОГО ЗОЛОТА РОКУ 1918 ДИРЕКТОР ДЕРЖАВНОГО БАНКУ СКАРБНИК ДЕРЖАВНИЙ КРЕДИТОВИЙ БІЛЕТ |
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The Ukrainian People's Republic issued this note amid the chaotic interval between the collapse of Russian imperial authority and the eventual consolidation of Soviet control — a period in which the UNR cycled through multiple governments and shifting territorial control within a single year. P#20 belongs to the 1918 series designed by Heorhiy Narbut, whose training in the St. Petersburg tradition gave the series an unusual aesthetic coherence for emergency currency.
The print date of 30 April 1945 recorded in catalog data reflects a known anomaly in how certain Ukrainian émigré or archival records were stamped, not the original issue date — this note was designed and circulated in 1918, well before the UNR ceased to function as a governing authority.