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10 Roubles 1st Spartakiade 1927
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 10 Roubles (10 PRB) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a coloured commemorative design depicting three male athletes in coloured athletic shirts running in the foreground, rendered with applied colour highlighting their distinctive sportswear. Behind them, the grandstand and arena of a stadium are shown in relief. To the right, a female runner is visible in the mid-ground. A circular Cyrillic legend along the upper left reads 'ПЕРВАЯ СПАРТАКИАДА В МАССР' (First Spartakiade in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), and along the lower right the inscription 'ОКТЯБРЬ 1927 ГОДА' (October 1927) records the date of the historical sporting event. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Transnistria — the narrow strip of territory between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border that declared independence from Moldova in 1990 but remains unrecognized by any UN member state — issues commemorative coinage primarily as a revenue mechanism, since its coins have no practical circulation outside the territory. This piece commemorates the 1st Spartakiade of 1927, the Soviet Union's answer to the bourgeois Olympics: a mass athletic competition explicitly designed to promote proletarian sport culture and undercut Western international games.
The Spartakiade series ran sporadically through the Soviet period; the 1927 inaugural event was held in Moscow and drew participants from international communist and labor organizations alongside Soviet republics.