Catalog
50 000 Roubles
| Issuer | Pridnestrovian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | ПРИДНЕСТРОВЬЕ КУПОН 50 000 РУБЛЕЙ БАНКА НИСТРЯНЭ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ БАНК ПРИДНІСТРОВСЬКИЙ БАНК (Translation: Transnistria, Coupon, 50,000 Rubles, Bank of Transnistria) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Drama and Comedy Theatre (ТЕАТР ДРАМЫ И КОМЕДИИ) in Tiraspol, rendered in fine intaglio line work, with a sculptural monument to the left set against an elaborate guilloche background in dark brown and red. A chairman's signature appears at upper right beneath the anti-counterfeiting warning text, with the numeral value '50000' set within a guilloche cartouche at lower right. The denomination in full Cyrillic lettering occupies a bold panel across the lower portion of the note. |
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Transnistria's 1996 high-denomination issues arrived during a period of severe monetary instability following the collapse of the Transnistrian rouble's initial series. The 50,000-rouble note was a direct consequence of compounding inflation that made lower denominations functionally useless within just a few years of the breakaway republic's unilateral monetary system taking shape after 1991. Pridnestrovie — a narrow sliver of territory between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border — has never received international recognition, and its banking instruments have no legal standing outside its own borders.
P#28A is distinguished from the closely related P#28 by a difference in serial number font or prefix block — worth checking closely, as the variants are frequently miscatalogued.