98 years ago, on January 4, Ukraine introduced the hryvnia

98 years ago, on January 4, Ukraine introduced the hryvnia.  
 
January 4, 1919 a law was passed UNR Directory of Ukrainian monetary unit of the national currency and the prohibition of handling Russian, German, Austrian and Romanian currency. 
March 1, 1918 CR adopted the Law "On the monetary unit, coining of coins and printing of government credit cards," which the new currency has been introduced - the hryvnia, which was divided into 100 steps and was equal to half of the ruble.
 Formal completion of the formation of Ukrainian currency structure of the system was held April 18, 1918, when the Central Rada adopted the Law "On granting the Minister of Finance the right to release the small change marks.
Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky came to power in April 1918, has preserved the system of ratings: 1 UAH = 1/2 of rubles, or 100 steps and continued monetary reform, but a revolution, which resulted in the Directory came to power, prevented him implement his plan. However, the UNR Directory launched a new project of the monetary reform proposed by Borys Martosom
He defined the only means of payment in Ukraine hryvnia, and the ruble issued in the time of the Central Rada and Hetman Skoropadsky. Russian rubles issued by the tsarist and then interim government, were canceled and were not taken by government agencies
In addition, with the Russian ruble exchange rate has become floating. The Directory has announced the strengthening of the gold content of the Ukrainian currency. To do this, in the population started to collect all the available gold and silver for the production of coins and was declared remelting of copper monuments to Russian tsars on a small coin. On the gold UAH was planned to place the bust of Taras Shevchenko, and silver coins - the building of the Central Rada.   
But to begin production of the coins did not succeed because of the Bolshevik offensive and Russian occupation. After the evacuation of the Directory to Vinnitsa, and then in Kamenetz-Podolsk, founded hetman Expedition Preparations State Papers sent to Stanislaus, where she was in the presence of an appropriate base printed. 
Stanislav expedition leader Nikolai Danilchenko established manufacturing small change marks the UNR state treasury nominal value of 5 hryvnia.
  This bill is considered the worst of all issued in Ukraine. Small gray banknote of the images were only modest tridents on both sides and text. Some of them have even been a mistake in the designation of the nominal value. This is due to a hastily made a project for the quick release of money.
In March 1919 it was issued for circulation banknotes Getmanovskaya emissions. In 1920, the latest issue of Ukrainian money was held in Warsaw. On returning hryvnia Ukrainians had to wait more than 70 years. 

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