Catalog
1 Rouble
| Issuer | Transnistrian Bank (Приднестровский Банк) |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The right half of the obverse is occupied by an intaglio-style vignette portrait of General Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov (1730–1800), founder of Tiraspol, shown in three-quarter view in military uniform with decorations, his name inscribed below in Cyrillic. The denomination numeral "1" is set against a multicolour guilloche underprint in the centre-left field, with the issuer name in Cyrillic rendered in three languages across the lower centre. A wave-pattern guilloche border runs along the top, and the year "1994" appears in a decorative oval cartouche at lower left alongside the red serial number. |
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| Obverse lettering | ПРИДНЕСТРОВЬЕ КУПОН 1 РУБЛЬ БАНКА НИСТРЯНЭ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ БАНК ПРИДНІСТРОВСЬКИЙ БАНК (Translation: Transnistria, Coupon, 1 Ruble, Bank of Transnistria [in Moldovan, Russian, and Ukrainian]) |
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Transnistria's 1994 rouble series emerged from a genuinely strange monetary situation: a breakaway republic, internationally unrecognized, that had already issued coupon-based transitional currency before moving to printed banknotes. The Transnistrian Bank — operating independently of both Moldova and Russia — contracted its early notes through foreign printers while the political status of the territory remained, and remains, unresolved.
The watermark security on this denomination is modest relative to what the bank introduced on later issues, reflecting both the limited printing budget of a nascent parallel state and the practical reality that these notes circulated in an economy largely isolated from outside financial scrutiny.