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10 Roubles 1st Spartakiade 1927

Issuer Transnistrian Republican Bank
Year 2007
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Composition Silver (.925)
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Obverse script Cyrillic
Obverse lettering ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ РЕСПУБЛИКАНСКИЙ БАНК 2007 925 • 10 РУБЛЕЙ •
(Translation: Transnistrian Republican Bank 10 Roubles)
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Transnistria's commemorative program has long leaned on Soviet nostalgia as a form of political identity, and this piece fits squarely in that pattern. The 1927 All-Union Spartakiade was the USSR's answer to the bourgeois Olympics — a mass athletic competition explicitly framed as a proletarian alternative, held in Moscow and attended by worker-athletes from Soviet republics and several foreign communist organizations.

The original 1927 Soviet rouble commemorating that event is one of the most coveted issues in Russian numismatics. This 2007 Transnistrian reinterpretation borrows its prestige entirely from that association.

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