Catalog
1 Rouble 25 Years of Republic
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | ПРИДНЕСТРОВЬЕ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ РЕСПУБЛИКАНСКИЙ БАНК ПРИДНІСТРОВСЬКИЙ РЕСПУБЛІКАНСКИЙ БАНК БАНКА РЕПУБЛИКАНЭ НИСТРЯНЭ ОДИН РУБЛЬ 1 25 ЛЕТ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ ПМР 1990-2015 (Translation: Transnistria, Transnistrian Republican Bank, One Ruble, 25 years of the formation of PMR) |
| 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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| Comments |
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.