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| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Size | 129 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ПРИДНЕСТРОВЬЕ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ РЕСПУБЛИКАНСКИЙ БАНК ПРИДНІСТРОВСЬКИЙ РЕСПУБЛІКАНСКИЙ БАНК БАНКА РЕПУБЛИКАНЭ НИСТРЯНЭ ОДИН РУБЛЬ 1 100 ЛЕТ (1918 - 2018) ПОГРАНИЧНЫМ ВОЙСКАМ 26 ЛЕТ ПОГРАНИЧНОМУ УПРАВЛЕНИЮ МГБ ПМР (Translation: Transnistria, Transnistrian Republican Bank, One Ruble, 100 years of border troops (1918–2018), 26 years of the Border Directorate of the Transnistrian Ministry of State Security) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Kitskansky Bridgehead Memorial Complex, rendered in brown tones, with a large stone monument tablet and a tree in the foreground set against an open sky. The denomination numeral '1' appears in green at lower right, framed by fine guilloche lacework borders along both vertical edges. An anti-counterfeiting warning legend is printed in small Cyrillic text along the lower left margin. |
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Transnistria's commemorative rouble issues are an unusual category — the unrecognized republic has used anniversary notes as a form of soft diplomatic signaling since the early 2000s, asserting historical identity through currency that most of the world refuses to acknowledge as legal tender. This 2018 piece marks the border troops who defended Soviet frontiers, and the "Printed: 30.04.1945" date refers to the commemorated event, not the production date — a distinction that trips up catalogers regularly.
Pick 63 belongs to a run of themed commemoratives with limited but genuine domestic circulation. Transnistrian roubles are accepted within the territory's shops and state institutions, so these notes do pass through hands rather than going straight into albums.