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100 Roubles Year of the Rat
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#144 |
| Obverse description | At centre, the State Emblem of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic occupies the field. Surrounding the emblem, a Cyrillic legend reading 'ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ РЕСПУБЛИКАНСКИЙ БАНК' (Transnistrian Republican Bank) curves along the upper periphery. Below the emblem, the denomination '100 РУБЛЕЙ' is inscribed in Cyrillic, and the date '2008' appears directly beneath the emblem. The fineness mark '925' is also present in the legend area. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic/Chinese |
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Transnistria — the narrow sliver of territory between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border that declared independence from Moldova in 1990 — has never received international recognition, yet its Republican Bank has issued a steady stream of collector coinage since the mid-1990s. This piece belongs to a Chinese lunar series produced for the export collector market, a revenue strategy common among unrecognized or micro-states with no meaningful numismatic domestic demand. The coins circulate nowhere and are legal tender in a country most governments decline to acknowledge exists.