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1 Rouble Order of the Patriotic War

Issuer Transnistrian Republican Bank
Year 2015
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Value 1 Rouble (1 PRB)
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Obverse description The State Emblem of the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic occupies the central field, rendered in relief detail. The denomination '1 РУБЛЬ' appears below the emblem, flanked by the date '2015' within dot separators. The encircling legend 'ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ РЕСПУБЛИКАНСКИЙ БАНК' arcs around the upper periphery of the coin.
Obverse script Cyrillic
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Transnistria's commemorative rouble program has long served the unrecognized state's need to assert institutional permanence through numismatic output — the Transnistrian Republican Bank issues coins that no foreign central bank will clear, spent domestically in a territory whose sovereignty no UN member formally recognizes. The Order of the Patriotic War being commemorated here is the Soviet decoration established by Stalin in May 1942, awarded to Red Army personnel for specific acts of battlefield valor, with over 9 million conferred by the end of the conflict.

Transnistria's deep identification with Soviet symbolism is constitutional, not incidental — the hammer and sickle remains on its flag.

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