Catalog
20 Rouble Ministry of Finance
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of Moldova |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Consumer ration card (cartela consumatorului) for March, printed on plain cream paper in a grid layout comprising twelve detachable coupons of 1 ruble each arranged in the upper section and sixteen detachable coupons of 50 kopecks each in the lower section. The central panel bears the issuing authority inscription 'RSS MOLDOVA / 20 rub.' along with blank lines for the holder's name, release date, and the countersignatures of the director and chief accountant, framed by a simple ruled border. Each individual coupon is identified by the abbreviation 'R S S M', the denomination, and the month designation 'martie'. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in pale blue-grey ink, showing the ghost impression of the obverse coupon grid as a light underprint. The layout mirrors the obverse arrangement of coupon rows, rendered in a single faded tone without additional text or ornamental elements, with a visible horizontal fold mark across the centre of the sheet. |
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Moldova's 1992 issues were transitional instruments, printed before the National Bank was formally operational as a currency-issuing authority. The Ministry of Finance stepped in as issuer — an arrangement that reflects how rapidly the newly independent republic had to improvise monetary infrastructure after the Soviet ruble ceased to function as a viable common currency.
The P#A11 designation signals a note that didn't make it into the main Pick sequence initially — catalogued retrospectively, which is common for the early Moldovan issues where documentation was fragmentary for years.