Ukraine 1996 1000000 karbovantsiv KM-32
This specimen was lot 3071 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $90. The catalog description[1] noted, "UKRAINE: Republic, AR 1,000,000 karbovantsiv, 1996, Outstanding Personalities of Ukraine Series - Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, struck at the Kremnica mint, Slovakia, Proof. The coin is dedicated to the 130th anniversary of Mykhaylo Hrushevsky (1866-1934), an outstanding Ukrainian scientist, historian, academician, public and political figure, and first president of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1917-1918." Wikipedia comments, "The Karbovanets (Ukrainian: карбованець, romanized: karbovanets', plural: карбованці, karbovantsi for 2–4, or карбованців, karbovantsiv for 5 or more), also colloquially known as kupon (купон, plural: купони, kupony) or coupon from the banknote printing, is a former unit of currency in Ukraine in three separate periods of the 20th century. It is also a predecessor currency of today's Ukrainian hryvnia." This is an example of the third karbovanets, used 1992-96. It was accompanied by a 200,000 karbovantsiv (KM 27) struck in copper-nickel. The hryvnia was introduced in 1996 to supersede the Karbovanets (1 hryvnia = 100,000 karbovantsiv).
Recorded mintage: 10,000 at the Kremnica mint.
Specifications: 16.81 g, 0.925 fine silver, 33 mm diameter, reeded edge.
Catalog reference: KM-32.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.
Links:
- 1995 2,000,000 karbovantsiv, 50th Anniversary of the United Nations
- 1996 200,000 karbovantsiv, 125th Anniversary of Lesya Ukrainka
- 1996 1,000,000 karbovantsiv, Bohdan Khmelnytsky
- 1996 1,000,000 karbovantsiv, Lesya Ukrayinka
- 1996 1,000,000 karbovantsiv, Hrygoriy Skovoroda
- 1996 2,000,000 karbovantsiv, 10th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster
- 1996 2,000,000 karbovantsiv, Atlanta Summer Olympic Games
- 1996 2,000,000 karbovantsiv, Centennial of the Modern Olympics
- 1996 10 hryven, Petro Mohyla
- 1996 20 hryven, 1000th Anniversary of the Tithe Church
- 1996 50 hryven, St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev
- 1996 200 hryven, Taras Shevchenko
- 1996 200 hryven, Pecherska Lavra monastery
- 1997 20 hryven, The Savior Cathedral in Chernihiv
- 1997 20 hryven, Severyn Nalyvayko
- 1997 20 hryven, Cossack Mamay
- 1997 20 hryven, 200th Anniversary of the Opening the Kyiv Contract Fair
- Coins and currency dated 1996