Catalog
1000 Cupon
| Issuer | Banca Națională a Moldovei |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Cupon (1992) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NAȚIONALĂ A MOLDOVEI CUPON 1000 una mie Falsificarea acestor bilete se pedepseste conform legilor (Translation: NATIONAL BANK OF MOLDOVA COUPON 1000 ONE THOUSAND Counterfeiting of these tickets is punished in accordance with the laws) |
| Reverse description | A vignette of a medieval fortress — identified as the Tighina (Bender) fortress — occupies the central right portion of the note, rendered in fine intaglio-style line engraving with a landscape background. The left half of the reverse is filled with an elaborate interlocking guilloche rosette underprint in blue and brown. Denominational numerals "1000" appear in guilloche cartouches at each corner, and the bank monogram is repeated at upper right. |
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The cupon was Moldova's transitional currency, introduced after the country left the Soviet ruble zone. These notes were never intended as permanent — the cupon was a placeholder while the National Bank prepared the leu, which replaced it in November 1993 at a rate of 1000 coupons to 1 leu, making this denomination precisely the one that vanished at par conversion.
The 1993 print date of 30 April 1945 in the data is almost certainly a cataloging or data-entry error — no Moldovan cupon was printed in 1945.