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10 Roubles S.I. Bolgarin

Issuer Transnistrian Republican Bank (Приднестровский Республиканский Банк)
Year 2020
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Reverse description A right-facing bust portrait of S.I. Bolgarin dominates the central field, depicted in civilian dress with decorations visible on his chest. To the left, a Hero of the Soviet Union Gold Star medal and a military bridge construction scene with artillery equipment are shown in relief, alluding to his wartime engineering achievements. The name С.И. БОЛГАРИН is inscribed in bold Cyrillic lettering along the upper arc, while the life dates 1925-2002 appear in the lower exergue.
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Transnistria — officially unrecognized by any UN member state — operates its own central bank and issues collector coinage as a soft assertion of administrative independence from Moldova. The Bolgarin series honors Semyon Ivanovich Bolgarin, a figure in the region's Soviet-era agricultural and political history, the kind of local commemoration that Tiraspol's numismatic program favors heavily over broader historical subjects.

The Transnistrian Republican Bank has issued silver collector pieces consistently since the 1990s, partly as revenue generation given the territory's constrained hard currency position.

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