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50 Rouble Ministry of Finance - Brown
| Issuer | Ministerul Finantelor (Ministry of Finance) of the Republic of Moldova |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Consumer ration card sheet (Cartela Consumatorului) issued by the Ministry of Finance of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, printed in brown on plain paper stock in letterpress, comprising a grid of perforated coupons with a combined face value of 50 rubles: nineteen 1-ruble coupons inscribed R.S.S.M. / CUPON DE 1 RUB. / APRILIE, seven 3-ruble coupons, and two 5-ruble coupons arranged across the lower rows. The central panel bears the principal legends R.S.S. MOLDOVA / 50 RUB. / CARTELA CONSUMATORULUI with manuscript completion lines for the holder's name, issuing authority, and countersignatures of the Conducator and Contabil-Sef, validated by a circular official stamp of the Ministerul Finantelor Pentru Cupoane RSSM. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted plain paper, with the coupon grid and central inscription panel of the obverse faintly visible in mirror image through the thin paper stock, and the circular Ministry of Finance stamp impression showing through from the face. |
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Moldova's 1992 issue was a stopgap. When the newly independent republic separated from the Soviet monetary system, it lacked the infrastructure — and the time — to produce a full national currency immediately. These Ministry of Finance notes, technically cupon-style transitional instruments, were printed under considerable urgency and circulated alongside Soviet roubles during an extraordinarily compressed monetary transition.
The P#A17 designation reflects its unlisted status in early Pick editions — it was catalogued retroactively, which itself signals how quickly these notes moved through the system before numismatists could document the series properly.