25 Rubles Bendery Museum of History

Transnistria — officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic — has issued collector coinage since the early 2000s as a deliberate tool of soft statehood, producing numismatic series that assert cultural and institutional permanence for a government recognized by no UN member state. The Bendery Museum of History, housed in a city whose 1992 battle between Transnistrian and Moldovan forces left visible damage that persists today, is a recurring subject in these issues.