Catalog
500 Roubles
| Issuer | Pridnestrovian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio-style rendering of the Parliament building in Tiraspol, flanked by trees and set against a dense multicolour guilloche underprint in blue, green, and orange wave patterns. A map outline of the Transnistrian territory appears as a green underprint to the left of the building vignette. The denomination numeral 500 is printed within a rosette at the lower right, while the value in words is set in bold Cyrillic lettering along the bottom margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Transnistria's 1993 rouble series was issued by a state that no country recognises — the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic declared independence from Moldova in 1990 following armed conflict, and has maintained a separate currency ever since. The Republican Bank operates as a functioning central bank for a population of roughly 400,000, despite the territory's unresolved legal status under international law.
The 1993 dated issues replaced the provisional coupon stamps affixed to Soviet roubles that the region had used as a stopgap during the immediate post-Soviet period. A watermark is the sole security provision — modest even by the standards of the early 1990s transitional issues flooding out of former Soviet republics at the time.