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10 Roubles 1st Spartakiade 1927
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the State Emblem of the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic is depicted in high relief within the field. The circular legend naming the issuing bank and the year of issue appears along the upper periphery, while the denomination is inscribed along the lower periphery. The fineness mark '925' is incorporated into the legend, indicating the silver composition of the coin. |
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| Reverse description | At centre, a female athlete is depicted in full stride, rendered in colourised relief against the coin's surface. A sash across her chest bears the Cyrillic inscription proclaiming that all world records must be theirs. A circular legend along the left periphery identifies the First Spartakiade held in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, while an inscription to the lower right records the date of the event as October 1927. |
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Transnistria's unrecognized status has never stopped its central bank from issuing ambitious numismatic programs. This piece commemorates the 1st Spartakiade of 1927, the Soviet Union's answer to the Olympic Games — a mass athletic competition conceived explicitly as a socialist alternative to what Soviet leadership dismissed as a bourgeois institution. The original 1927 event drew over 600 participants from foreign worker and communist organizations alongside Soviet athletes.
That an unrecognized breakaway state issued this eighty years after the fact says something about Transnistria's deliberate cultivation of Soviet nostalgia as political identity.