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50 000 Roubles
| Issuer | Pridnestrovskiy Bank (Transnistrian Bank) |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 50 000 Roubles (50 000 рубле́й) (50 000) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (1730–1800), founder of Tiraspol, set against a guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral and coupon overprint for the 1996 issue appear alongside multilingual bank inscriptions in Russian, Romanian (Cyrillic), and Ukrainian. |
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| Obverse lettering | ПРИДНЕСТРОВЬЕ 50000 ВЫПУСК 1996 ГОДА КУПОН 50000 РУБЛЕЙ БАНКА НИСТРЯНЭ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ БАНК ПРИДНІСТРОВСЬКИЙ БАНК (Translation: Transnistria, Issued year 1996, Coupon, 50,000 Rubles, Bank of Transnistria) |
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Transnistria's 1996 high-denomination issues reflect the hyperinflationary spiral that had already forced the breakaway republic to redenominate once and would do so again. The Pridnestrovskiy Bank operated without recognition from any United Nations member state — a status that has never changed — meaning these notes circulated as legal tender within a territory that, by international law, does not exist.
P#30 belongs to a short-lived series that was quickly superseded by the 1994-dated kuponi issues and later redenomination schemes. Surviving notes often show heavy handling wear, consistent with real transactional use rather than collector hoarding.