Catalog
25 Roubles
| Issuer | Transnistria |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Reference(s) | P#3 |
| Obverse description | A Soviet-era 25 Roubles banknote of the 1961 issue, repurposed for Transnistrian circulation, with a portrait vignette of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924) at left and the National Emblem of the Soviet Union centrally positioned over a fine guilloche underprint. An adhesive stamp bearing the portrait of General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov is applied at far right, serving as the official Transnistrian overprint authorising the note for local use. The face carries the principal state bank inscription and denomination in Cyrillic across the upper and lower registers. |
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| Reverse lettering | ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ДВАДЦЯТЬ П`ЯТЬ КАРБОВАНЦІВ ДВАЦЦАЦЬ ПЯЦЬ РУБЛЁЎ • ЙИГИРМА БЕШ СЎМ ЖЫЙЫРМА БЕС СОМ • ოცდახუთი მანეთი ИЈИРМИ БЕШ МАНАТ • DVIDEŠIMT PENKU RUBLIAI ДОУЭЗЕЧЬ ШИ ЧИНЧ ДЕ РУБЛЕ • DIVDESMIT PIECI RUBĻI • ЖЫЙЫРМА БЕШ СОМ • БИСТУ ПАНҶ СӮМ ՔՍԱՆՀԻՆԳ ՌՈՒԲԼԻ • ЙИГРИМИ БӘШ МАНАТ KAKSKÜMMED VIIS RUBLA СССР ПОДДЕЛКА БИЛЕТОВ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО БАНКА СССР ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ (Translation: Twenty-five Rubles [in all Soviet Union languages], USSR, Forgery of the notes of the State Bank of the USSR is punishable by law) |
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Transnistria's 1994 rouble series was effectively a second attempt at a functioning currency for a state that most of the world still refuses to recognize. The 1992 coupon issues had been provisional stopgaps; by 1994, the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic was printing notes intended to function as a permanent national currency despite the unresolved political situation following the 1992 war with Moldova.
The watermark security on these notes is modest — appropriate for a nascent central bank operating under significant economic and diplomatic constraints. Counterfeiting was a real concern in the post-Soviet vacuum, where multiple competing currencies circulated simultaneously across the region.