Catalog
1 Rouble National Currency
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Size | 129 × 56 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Kitskansky Bridgehead Memorial Complex, an obelisk monument set against an open landscape with a commemorative inscription panel at its base. The numeral "1" appears in large format at lower right within a guilloche border, with the denomination legend in the upper right corner and an anti-counterfeiting warning in small text at lower left. |
| 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 rouble series occupies an unusual position in modern notaphily: the territory has operated its own currency since 1994 despite lacking any internationally recognized sovereignty, making every note from this issuer technically stateless paper. The 2014 series, of which this is a part, updated an earlier design run while retaining the underlying aesthetic continuity the Republican Bank had established across its previous emissions.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field almost certainly refers to a commemorative date encoded in the design — the end of World War II in Europe — rather than an actual print date. That kind of historical inscription embedded in production metadata is a known quirk of certain Transnistrian issues, where the Second World War carries particular official weight in the territory's self-constructed national identity.