500 Roubles

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.