100 Roubles Ivasik-Telesik

Transnistria — the narrow strip of land between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border that declared independence from Moldova in 1990 but remains unrecognized by any UN member state — issues collector coinage through its Republican Bank as an assertion of institutional legitimacy. This piece draws on "Ivasik-Telesik," a Ukrainian folk tale about a child raised by a duck, a story whose presence on a Transnistrian issue is quietly pointed given the territory's complex relationship with Ukrainian cultural identity.