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500 Roubles
| Issuer | Pridnestrovian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | БИЛЕТ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО БАНКА СССР БАНКОВСКИЕ БИЛЕТЫ ОБЕСПЕЧИВАЮТСЯ ЗОЛОТОМ, ДРАГОЦЕННЫМИ МЕТАЛЛАМИ И ПРОЧИМИ АКТИВАМИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО БАНКА 500 ПЯТЬСОТ РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: Banknote of the State Bank USSR, Banknotes are backed by gold, precious metals, and other assets of the state bank, Five Hundred Rubles) |
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| Reverse lettering | ПОДДЕЛКА БИЛЕТОВ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО БАНКА СССР ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ 500 ПЯТЬСОТ РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: Forgery of the notes of the State Bank of the USSR is punishable by law, Five Hundred Rubles) |
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Transnistria's Pridnestrovian Republican Bank began issuing its own currency following the 1992 war with Moldova — a brief but brutal conflict that effectively locked the breakaway strip of territory between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border into a frozen political status it still holds. The 1994 rouble series was part of a broader effort to assert functional statehood through monetary infrastructure, replacing the provisional coupon notes that had served as a stopgap.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field in the catalog data almost certainly reflects a data entry error — no Transnistrian note was printed in 1945.