Catalog
200 Roubles
| Issuer | Pridnestrovian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents an equestrian statue of General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (1730–1800), founder of Tiraspol, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a guilloche underprint. The bank name appears in three scripts — Russian, Romanian in Cyrillic, and Ukrainian — reflecting the official trilingual policy of the republic. Denomination numerals and the coupon designation are set within decorative letterpress borders flanking the central motif. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio view of the Parliament building in Tiraspol, flanked by trees and street lamps, set against a dense multicolour guilloche underprint in rose, orange, and blue tones. A ghost watermark impression of the Suvorov equestrian monument appears in orange at the upper left. The denomination in words is set in bold Cyrillic letterpress along the lower register, with the numeral "200" in an ornamental cartouche at the lower right. |
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Transnistria's 1993 note issues came at a moment of acute economic instability — the breakaway republic had declared independence from Moldova in 1990 and fought a brief but bloody armed conflict in 1992. Printing its own currency was as much a political assertion as a practical necessity, given that Moldovan leu and Russian roubles were circulating simultaneously in a deeply uncertain monetary environment.
The watermark security on this series was rudimentary by any measure, reflecting the limited printing infrastructure available to an unrecognized state operating under international sanctions pressure. Counterfeiting of the early Transnistrian rouble issues was a documented problem.