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50 Roubles
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Printer | Goznak |
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| Reverse lettering | ПОДДЕЛКА КУПОНОВ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКОГО БАНКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: Forgery of the coupons of the Bank of Transnistria is punishable by law, Fifty Rubles) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Transnistria's breakaway status following the 1992 war with Moldova left it operating outside any internationally recognized banking framework. The Transnistrian Republican Bank issued this series as a functional currency for a state that no government outside a handful of post-Soviet allies would formally acknowledge — and Goznak, the Russian state printer in Moscow, produced it, a detail that speaks plainly about where Tiraspol's political alignments sat in the early 1990s.
The 1993 ruble series replaced provisional coupon money and circulated alongside Russian rubles at a fixed rate until Transnistria introduced its own monetary reforms later in the decade.