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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;noob76, post: 2123549, member: 35631&quot;]I&#039;m no expert on Ukrainian banknotes, but the cheap paper looks right for the time. Also, the seller sells tons of banknotes from regimes that collapsed at low prices. Basically, everything makes sense to me that this would be a legitimate note.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason why a hundred year old banknote would be so cheap is that the Soviets won the war, so these notes were worth essentially nothing by 1920.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking a bit further, this article from Wikipedia tells a bit about General Denikin who sort of split off from other Ukrainian national groups fighting against the Soviets:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_karbovanets" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_karbovanets" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_karbovanets</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;After occupation of Odessa by military units of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Army" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Army" rel="nofollow">Denikin&#039;s Army</a> in spring, 1919, the printing house of Odessa continued printing bank-notes of 50 karbovanets. The Ukrainian Government was indignant and proclaimed money issued by the Denikinists to be false (series AO, numbers 210 and above).&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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