Catalog
1 Rouble Border Troops
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Size | 129 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (1730–1800), founder of Tiraspol, at left center against a guilloche underprint. A commemorative overprint at right marks the centenary of the Border Troops (1918–2018) and the 26th anniversary of the Border Directorate of the Transnistrian Ministry of State Security. The face carries bilingual and multilingual bank title inscriptions in Cyrillic across the upper register. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 ОДИН РУБЛЬ ПОДДЕЛКА БИЛЕТОВ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКОГО БАНКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ (Translation: One Ruble, Forgery of the banknotes of the Bank of Transnistria is punishable by law) |
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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.