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1 Rouble KGB
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ПРИДНЕСТРОВЬЕ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ РЕСПУБЛИКАНСКИЙ БАНК ПРИДНІСТРОВСЬКИЙ РЕСПУБЛІКАНСКИЙ БАНК БАНКА РЕПУБЛИКАНЭ НИСТРЯНЭ ОДИН РУБЛЬ 1 100 лет ВЧК-КГБ 19 17 20 17 25 лет МГБ ПМР (Translation: Transnistria, Transnistrian Republican Bank, One Ruble, Cheka-KGB 100 years, Transnistrian state security service 25 years) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Kitskansky Bridgehead Memorial Complex, with an obelisk and an open-book monument bearing inscribed text, set against a tree and architectural base, rendered in intaglio-style engraving over a light guilloche underprint; the numeral 1 appears at lower right, and the denomination legend is printed in the upper right corner. |
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Transnistria's KGB-series roubles are commemorative issues, not circulating currency in any conventional sense — the breakaway republic has used them partly as collectibles and partly as soft propaganda, marking anniversaries tied to Soviet and Russian historical memory. The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field here denotes the commemorated date, the fall of Berlin, not the production date of the note itself.
Pick 60 belongs to a run of themed issues released by the Transnistrian Republican Bank in 2017, a series that attracted collector attention largely because of its political directness — few issuing authorities name their central intelligence agency on a banknote.