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200 Roubles
| Issuer | Transnistria |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Reference(s) | P#8 |
| Obverse description | At left, a portrait vignette of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924); at centre, the National Emblem of the Soviet Union; at far right, an adhesive overprint stamp bearing a portrait of General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov. The base note is a Soviet State Bank 200-rouble issue overstamped for Transnistrian circulation, retaining the original Cyrillic legends and guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | ПОДДЕЛКА БИЛЕТОВ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО БАНКА СССР ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ 200 ДВЕСТИ РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: Forgery of the notes of the State Bank of the USSR is punishable by law, Two Hundred Rubles) |
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Transnistria's 1994 rouble series was issued by a state that no internationally recognized government acknowledges as sovereign — the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic declared independence from Moldova in 1990, fought a brief but bloody war in 1992, and has operated its own financial system ever since, backed by no central bank with IMF membership. The notes were printed domestically under considerable technical constraints, and the quality of the paper stock reflects that.
Pick 8 belongs to a short-lived series that was superseded when rampant inflation forced a redenomination in 2000, collapsing 1,000 old roubles into one new one. Most circulated heavily before that cutoff.