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1 Rouble Water Lily
| Issuer | Pridnestrovian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Weight | 4.65 g |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
| Obverse lettering | ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ РЕСПУБЛИКАНСКИЙ БАНК 1 РУБЛЬ · 2021 · (Translation: Pridnestrovian Republican Bank 1 ruble) |
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Transnistria — the narrow strip of land between Moldova and Ukraine that declared independence in 1990 but remains unrecognized by any UN member state — has issued an expansive series of commemorative roubles partly as a soft-power exercise in projecting institutional legitimacy. The Pridnestrovian Republican Bank functions as a fully operational central bank for a country that, legally speaking, most of the world refuses to acknowledge exists. Coins like this one circulate domestically alongside Transnistrian banknotes that are worthless beyond its borders.
KM#427 belongs to a flora-themed subset of the broader commemorative program. The water lily (*Nymphaea alba*) is native to the Dniester River basin.