--- title: Державний кредитовий білет, 100 гривень (State Credit Note, 100 Hryven; legend 'Ukrainian People's Republic', 1918) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/unr-100-hryven-note-1918/ description: 'Obverse of a 100-hryven state credit note dated 1918: a woman in embroidered national dress holding a sheaf and sickle and a man in a work apron leaning…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Державний кредитовий білет, 100 гривень (State Credit Note, 100 Hryven; legend 'Ukrainian People's Republic', 1918)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/unr-100-hryven-note-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/unr-100-hryven-note-1918.jpg) # Державний кредитовий білет, 100 гривень (State Credit Note, 100 Hryven; legend 'Ukrainian People's Republic', 1918) Obverse of a 100-hryven state credit note dated 1918: a woman in embroidered national dress holding a sheaf and sickle and a man in a work apron leaning on a tool flank a wreath of fruit and flowers around a trident, under the legend 'Ukrainian People's Republic'. The tell is the paper's own message: national emblem, peasant and worker figures and a printed gold-content line ('1 hryven contains 8.712 parts of pure gold') are used to lend the new state's paper the standing of the coin it replaces. - **Date:** 1918 - **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi) - **Made by:** Ukrainian State treasury and State Bank (note authorised by the Central Rada law of 1 March 1918; design by Heorhiy Narbut) - **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia) - **Country:** [Ukrainian State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=ukrainian-state) - **Medium:** [Banknotes and coins](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=banknote-coin) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Ukrainian State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=ukrainian-state) - **Leader:** [Pavlo Skoropadskyi](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=pavlo-skoropadskyi) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Reassure](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=reassure) - **Theme:** [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance) - **Event:** [Ukrainian War of Independence](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=ukrainian-war-of-independence) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ukrainian_100_hryvnia%27s_note_of_the_People%27s_repub.jlic_of_Ukraine_(1918)_front_side.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (1918 banknote; Commons PD-UA-exempt banknotes / PD-old-100-expired) Scan of a 100-hryven note of 1918 (design: Heorhiy Narbut d. 1920), Commons file page states 'Public domain' with Copyrighted=False ## Text on the object Original (Ukrainian) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 100 УКРАЇНСЬКА НАРОДНЯ РЕСПУБЛІКА 100 ДЕРЖАВНИЙ КРЕДИТОВИЙ БІЛЕТ СТО ГРИВЕНЬ Директор Державного Банку [signature] Скарбник [signature] року 1918 1 ГРИВНЯ МІСТИТЬ 8,712 ДОЛІ ЧИСТОГО ЗОЛОТА ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` 100 UKRAINIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 100 STATE CREDIT NOTE ONE HUNDRED HRYVEN Director of the State Bank [signature] Treasurer [signature] year 1918 1 HRYVNIA CONTAINS 8.712 PARTS OF PURE GOLD ``` Obverse only. The 'Директор Державного Банку' line is partly hidden by the fold and only its start and end are legible; the two signatures are not readable. The gold-content figure is legible as 8,712. The reverse text, not hosted here, reads 'Державні кредитові білети Української Народньої Республіки забезпечуються всім державним майном Республіки ... ходять нарівні з золотою монетою ... За фальшування державних кредитових білетів виновні караються позбавленням прав і тюрмою.' [← That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth: Buy Liberty Bonds](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/that-liberty-shall-not-perish-1918/) [Vaterland, Familie, Zukunft: 8. Kriegsanleihe (Fatherland, Family, Future: 8th War Loan) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vaterland-familie-zukunft-1918/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (0130 · Transfer) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)