1000 Roubles

Transnistria's 1993 series was issued by a state that no country recognized — the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic had declared independence from Moldova in 1990, fought a brief but bloody war in 1992, and was printing its own currency almost immediately after the ceasefire. These roubles were introduced as the region refused to adopt the Moldovan leu and needed a functional medium of exchange for a population of roughly 700,000 cut off from normal banking channels.

The denomination reflects the hyperinflationary pressures radiating out of the post-Soviet rouble zone at the time.