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.
Propaganda techniques used in this banknote or coin
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Ukrainian State treasury and State Bank (note authorised by the Central Rada law of 1 March 1918; design by Heorhiy Narbut)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Ukrainian State
- Medium
- Banknotes and coins
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Ukrainian State
- Leader
- Pavlo Skoropadskyi
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Theme
- Economy and finance
- Event
- Ukrainian War of Independence
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, 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
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.'
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