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100 Roubles Fortress Bendery
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | At center, a detailed depiction of the ancient Bendery Fortress viewed from across the river Dniester, rendered in relief against a mirrored field. At the top of the design, a stylized rosette bears the inscription 1538, denoting the year of the fortress's founding. Immediately below the rosette, a decorative ribbon carries the legend БЕНДЕРСКАЯ КРЕПОСТЬ (Fortress of Bendery) in Cyrillic. Along the lower periphery, the series name ДРЕВНИЕ КРЕПОСТИ НА ДНЕСТРЕ (Ancient Fortresses on the Dniester) is inscribed in a semicircular arrangement. |
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Bendery (also spelled Bender) sits on the west bank of the Dniester and was the site of fierce fighting during the 1992 Moldovan-Transnistrian war — the fortress itself briefly changed hands during some of the conflict's most violent urban combat. Transnistria's commemorative silver program has functioned partly as a soft-power exercise, issuing collectible coinage that implicitly asserts territorial and historical legitimacy for a state unrecognized by any UN member.
The fortress dates to Ottoman construction in the 16th century and later hosted Charles XII of Sweden after his defeat at Poltava in 1709.