25 Roubles Accounts Chamber

Transnistria — officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic — is an unrecognized breakaway state that declared independence from Moldova in 1990, backed by Russian military presence that remains to this day. Its central bank issues legal tender accepted nowhere outside its own territory, yet continues producing commemorative coinage with the apparatus of a fully sovereign state. This piece honors the Accounts Chamber, Transnistria's supreme audit institution, the kind of subject most recognized governments would never bother commemorating in metal.