Catalog
100 Roubles N.D. Zelinsky
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse description | At center, the State Emblem of the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic rendered in high relief occupies the field. A circular legend along the upper periphery reads the name of the issuing bank in Cyrillic, while the denomination and date appear along the lower arc, separated by raised dots. |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Transnistria issued this coin as part of a series honoring Soviet-era scientists, despite being an internationally unrecognized breakaway state dependent on Russian political and economic support for its existence. Nikolai Zelinsky, the organic chemist who developed the first effective activated charcoal gas mask during World War I, is one of the more defensible choices in such a series — his work saved tens of thousands of lives on the Eastern Front after 1915.
Transnistrian commemorative silver from this period was struck primarily for collector export rather than domestic use, as the local economy ran on its own unbacked currency.