10 Karbovantsiv, Ukrainian State, 1918

This copy

Accession

OM-00156

Serial

АА 023

Series year

1918

Actually issued

1918

director_of_the_state_treasury

Kh. Lebid-Yurchyk (Лебідь-Юрчик) probable

Engraved facsimile, identical across the Ukrainian State notes. Khoma Lebid-Yurchyk directed the State Treasury of the Hetmanate and was himself a noted numismatist.

Grade

VF (IBNS)

Light wear, good colour. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value

$9 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions

141 × 82.6 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

Russian Civil WarUkraineTrident

The type

Type

10 Karbovantsiv, Ukrainian State, 1918

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — parity with credit notes

Має ходити нарівні з кредитовими білетами

Circulates on a par with credit notes

Symbology

Tryzub (trident)

The trident of Volodymyr the Great, adopted in 1918 as the arms of the Ukrainian State - reaching past the Russian Empire to a tenth-century Kyivan precedent.

Narbut's ornament

Heorhiy Narbut's folk-derived borders and lettering, a deliberate visual break from Russian imperial style. The typography is itself the argument.

What was happening

Money of the Ukrainian State — Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi's government, installed with German backing in April 1918 and gone by December when the Germans withdrew.

The karbovanets was Ukraine's assertion of monetary independence, and the notes are strikingly designed: the trident, folk ornament and a deliberate visual break from Russian imperial style, largely by the artist Heorhiy Narbut. They circulated alongside Russian imperial roubles, which the notes themselves acknowledge — they circulate on a par with credit notes.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 10 Karbovantsiv, Ukrainian State, 1918 in the collection.