Types / 1918
1000 Karbovantsiv, Ukrainian State, 1918
Українська Держава — Знак Державної Скарбниці
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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.
