Consumer Card for 100 Karbovanets, Ukrainian SSR, 1991

This copy

Accession

OM-00235

Series year

1991

Actually issued

1991

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VF (IBNS)

Complete sheet, folds along the grid. 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

$3 indicative

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

Dimensions

at least 253.5 × 189.5 mm (±1, from the scan)

The note is folded and runs to the edge of the scan, so this is a floor, not a measurement. A flat rescan with a margin would settle it.

The type

Type

Consumer Card for 100 Karbovanets, Ukrainian SSR, 1991

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — what it is

Картка споживача

Consumer card

Symbology

Detachable coupon grid

Denominated squares for 1, 3, 5 and 10 karbovanets, clipped as they were spent.

Month names down the sheet

Each coupon is valid only in its stated month - a currency with an expiry date, to stop anyone accumulating it.

What was happening

A sheet of detachable coupons issued against wages, without which roubles could not buy goods. Rationing and currency at once, in the months when the Soviet economy stopped functioning and Ukraine had no money of its own.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every Consumer Card for 100 Karbovanets, Ukrainian SSR, 1991 in the collection.