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20 Roubles Independence
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Currency | Third rouble (2000-date) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts two cupped hands cradling a small sprouting plant, rendered in high relief as a symbol of nurturing and national growth, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Transnistrian independence. The bold stylised acronym 'ПМР' (Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika) is prominently inscribed in the upper field. A horizontal line divides the lower exergue area, where the anniversary dates '1990–2010' are incised in a clean serif typeface. The composition is set against a highly polished, mirror-like field, with radiant lines emanating behind the hands to enhance the commemorative character of the design. |
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Transnistria — the narrow strip of land between the Dniester River and the Moldovan-Ukrainian border — declared independence from Moldova in 1990, triggering a brief but bloody war in 1992 that left roughly a thousand dead. No United Nations member state recognizes its sovereignty. The Transnistrian Republican Bank nonetheless issues gold and silver collectibles aggressively, largely as a hard-currency revenue mechanism for a government that runs on Russian subsidies and Soviet nostalgia.
The two-troy-ounce gold format places this squarely in the bullion-collectible category rather than anything approaching circulating coinage.