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25 Roubles National Currency
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a combined composition of the medieval Tighina (Bender) Castle and a Russian Soldiers memorial column surmounted by an eagle, both rendered against a light rose guilloche underprint. The large numeral '25' appears at lower right, with the denomination in Cyrillic lettering across the top. A Cyrillic anti-counterfeiting warning inscription is placed along the left margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ПОДДЕЛКА БИЛЕТОВ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКОГО БАНКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ (Translation: Twenty five Rubles, Forgery of the banknotes of the Bank of Transnistria is punishable by law) |
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Transnistria's currency has no international recognition, which creates an unusual practical result: the notes are essentially inconvertible outside the territory, functioning more like internal accounting tokens than internationally exchangeable instruments. The 2014 series continued this self-contained monetary system for a breakaway state that has existed in legal limbo since its 1990 declaration of independence from Moldova — a conflict that never produced a formal peace treaty, only a ceasefire.
Pick 51 belongs to a redesigned polymer-to-paper reversion series; earlier Transnistrian issues had experimented with plastic substrate before returning to conventional paper stock.