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100 Roubles 210 years of Tiraspol
| Issuer | Pridnestrovian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ РЕСПУБЛИКАНСКИЙ БАНК 2002 • 100 РУБЛЕЙ • (Translation: Transnistrian Republican Bank 100 Rubles) |
| Reverse description | The reverse features a multi-element cityscape composition commemorating the 210th anniversary of Tiraspol's founding. In the foreground stands the equestrian monument to Alexander Suvorov, the city's founder. The Cathedral of the Nativity dominates the background, flanked to the left by the House of Government and Supreme Council of the PMR, and to the right by the City Council building. A semicircular inscription 210-ЛЕТИЕ ОСНОВАНИЯ ТИРАСПОЛЯ (The 210th Anniversary of the Foundation of Tiraspol) runs along the lower border. |
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Tiraspol was founded in 1792 as a Russian military fortress during Catherine the Great's push to consolidate control over the territories seized from the Ottoman Empire following the Russo-Turkish Wars. The city's 210th anniversary fell just over a decade after the Transnistrian War of 1992 — a brutal five-month conflict in which Tiraspol served as the de facto capital of the breakaway Moldovan territory that had declared independence in 1990. That war never formally ended; the ceasefire left Transnistria in a political limbo it still occupies.
The Pridnestrovian Republican Bank began issuing commemorative coinage partly to assert institutional legitimacy for a state unrecognized by any UN member.