Hryvnia

The hryvnia (Ukrainian ??????) has been the national currency of Ukraine since 1996 when it replaced the "coupon" (or karbovanets), the temporary currency used after Ukraine left the Soviet Union and the ruble zone.

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Hryvnia is often transliterated as grivna or hryvna. The hryvnia is divided into 100 kopiykas (singular kopiyka).

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The hryvnia symbol is a cursive Ukrainian letter He, with a double horizontal stroke symbolizing stability. Hryvnia is abbreviated "???." (hrn.) in Ukrainian. The hryvnia is represented by the ISO 4217 currency code UAH, or 980. The hryvnia symbol has been accepted for encoding as U+20B4 in Unicode 4.1, to be introduced in 2005.

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As of April 17, 2005, there were 5.23500 hryvnias to the US dollar or 6.736398 to the euro.

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1996: 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty....