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1000 Roubles
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | First rouble (1994) |
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| Obverse lettering | БИЛЕТ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО БАНКА СССР БАНКОВСКИЕ БИЛЕТЫ ОБЕСПЕЧИВАЮТСЯ ЗОЛОТОМ, ДРАГОЦЕННЫМИ МЕТАЛЛАМИ И ПРОЧИМИ АКТИВАМИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО БАНКА 1000 ТЫСЯЧА РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: Banknote of the State Bank USSR, Banknotes are backed by gold, precious metals, and other assets of the state bank, One Thousand Rubles) |
| Reverse description | A central vignette presents the Moscow Kremlin wall, Red Square, and the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed in a detailed letterpress engraving; to the right, a large guilloche rosette frames the numeral "1000" in bold intaglio, with the denomination legend ТЫСЯЧА and РУБЛЕЙ arranged across the lower portion of the note. |
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Transnistria's banknote series of the early 1990s emerged directly from the breakaway republic's 1990 declaration of independence from Moldova — a territory that had no internationally recognized status and no access to standard banking infrastructure. The 1994 dated issues replaced emergency coupon money that had circulated since 1992, when the brief but bloody war with Moldovan forces ended in a Russian-brokered ceasefire.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field almost certainly refers to a plate date or archival reference inherited from Soviet-era printing stock, not the actual production date of this note — a recurring source of confusion in catalog records for this series.