100 Roubles Year of the Goat

Transnistria — the narrow strip of land between Moldova and Ukraine that declared independence in 1990 but remains unrecognized by any UN member state — issues coins through its Republican Bank largely as numismatic products, since the Transnistrian rouble itself has no international standing. The 2014 lunar series entry exists in a peculiar legal vacuum: valid currency under local law, collectible novelty everywhere else.