25 Roubles Postage Stamps of Transnistria

Transnistria has issued postage stamps since 1992, the year after its self-declared independence from Moldova following a brief armed conflict along the Dniester River. The stamps themselves have no international postal validity — unrecognized by the Universal Postal Union — yet the Transnistrian Republican Bank has periodically issued coins commemorating them, an oddly recursive act of a state celebrating its own parallel infrastructure.

KM#542 is a late entry in this philatelic coin series.