25 Roubles Hero City Moscow

Transdniestria — the narrow strip of land between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border — has issued its own currency since the early 1990s despite receiving no recognition from the United Nations or any sovereign state. The Hero City series commemorates Soviet cities awarded the title for wartime resistance, a designation Stalin introduced in 1945. Moscow received the honor retroactively in 1965, on the twentieth anniversary of Victory Day.

Coins from this issuer circulate only within a territory whose legal status remains unresolved since the 1992 war with Moldova.