hrivna

plural hrivnas · plural hrivni

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of hryvnia.

   UKRAINE 1998, 2 Hrivni

   2017, World Coin News, Iola, Wis.: Krause Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   Hrivni and karbovantsi came in from the Russian Ukraine, the money of the democratic Peasant Republic. […] The hrivna was to have been equal to an Austrian crown, but even under the Ukrainian administration 100 hrivni were paid for 60 to 70 crowns. The naive claim appeared on the hrivni that they ranked “on an equality with gold,” but the Austrian crowns were truly a reminiscence of a golden age, the symbol of a once-firmly-established order.

   1922 April 20, L[ewis] B[ernstein] Namier, “Currencies and Exchanges in an East Galician Village”, in Skyscrapers and Other Essays (Essay Index Reprint Series), Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, published 1931 (1968 reprint), →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 165–166

   At present the debt for this grows each week by 200 mn hrivni, and it now stands at an overall sum of 4 bn.

   1997, Abstracts, Russian and East European Series, volume 27, London: ABREES, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 79

   The Ukraine issued a 1999 5-hrivni coin depicting the nativity on the reverse and angels on the obverse.

   2000 December 25, Coin World, Sidney, Oh.: Amos Press, →ISSN, →OCLC