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1 Rouble 25 Years of Republic
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Reference(s) | P#54 |
| Obverse description | At centre-left, a portrait vignette of General Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov (1730–1800), founder of Tiraspol, is set against a fine guilloche underprint; a commemorative overprint stamp at right marks the 25th anniversary of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (1990–2015). The denomination numeral "1" appears at lower right, with multilingual Cyrillic inscriptions identifying the issuing bank in Russian, Ukrainian, and Moldovan rendered above and below the central design. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the Kitskansky Bridgehead Memorial Complex, with a tall obelisk monument at left and an open-book memorial stele bearing inscribed text at right, set within a sparse landscape accented by a bare tree. A large denomination numeral "1" occupies the lower right, the composition framed by a fine guilloche border over a light green underprint. |
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Transnistria's commemorative issues are a study in contested statehood — the Transnistrian Republican Bank operates as a fully functioning central bank for a territory no UN member state recognizes. This 2015 rouble marks twenty-five years since the self-proclaimed Moldovan breakaway republic declared independence in September 1990, following a violent conflict with Chișinău that left several hundred dead and ultimately froze along a ceasefire line that has held, unresolved, ever since.
The printed date 30.04.1945 is not a production date — it refers to the commemorated event encoded in the note's iconography, almost certainly the Soviet victory chronology the republic consistently invokes to anchor its political identity.