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100 Rouble Ministry of Finance
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of Moldova |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 100 Rouble |
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| Obverse description | A consumer ration card sheet (cartela consumatorului) for the month of martie (March), issued by the R.S.S. Moldova, with a total face value of 100 ruble. The sheet is divided into 28 individual detachable coupons arranged in rows: eleven coupons of 1 ruble, eight coupons of 3 ruble, five coupons of 5 ruble, and four coupons of 10 ruble. Each coupon bears the R.S.S.M. inscription and the denomination in Romanian-language text, with spaces provided for the holder's name, issuing authority, and countersignatures of the responsible official and chief accountant. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted white paper reverse, typical of consumer ration coupon sheets issued during the transitional monetary period in Moldova in 1992. |
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Moldova's transition from Soviet ruble to a sovereign currency was not instantaneous. In 1992, before the Moldovan leu was introduced in November 1993, the Ministry of Finance — not a central bank — issued a series of temporary cupon notes to replace Soviet rubles that were being withdrawn from circulation across the former republics. These cupons were explicitly provisional instruments, never intended as a permanent monetary system.
The issuing authority is notable: a finance ministry issuing circulating currency rather than a central bank is unusual by any modern standard, reflecting how quickly the institutional framework had to be improvised after independence in 1991. The National Bank of Moldova did not yet have the infrastructure to manage a full currency issue.