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500 Roubles
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Value | 500 Roubles (500 рубле́й) |
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| Obverse description | A Soviet-era USSR State Bank 500 Roubles note overstamped for Transnistrian use, with a portrait vignette of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924) at left, the National Emblem of the Soviet Union centrally placed, and an adhesive stamp bearing the likeness of General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov affixed at far right. Cyrillic inscriptions appear above and below the central design, with guilloche underprint patterns framing the composition. The denomination numeral "500" appears in the lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a vignette of the Moscow Kremlin ensemble, with Spasskaya Tower and the Senate building rendered in a detailed intaglio-style illustration set against an open sky. Elaborate guilloche rosette work frames the central denomination panel, with the numeral "500" and the text ПЯТЬСОТ РУБЛЕЙ displayed in large characters at right. The serial number prefix and numerals appear in two positions along the lower margin. |
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Transnistria's 1994 coupon issues were emergency instruments for a breakaway state that had declared independence from Moldova in 1990 but remained unrecognized internationally. The Republican Bank operated outside any formal international monetary framework, printing its own currency to sustain a wartime and post-wartime economy propped largely by Russian political support and the continued presence of the Russian 14th Army.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field in the catalog data is almost certainly a data entry artifact — no Transnistrian note was printed in 1945.