Catalog
5000 Roubles
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | First rouble (1994) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries the Soviet-era base note design centred on a vignette of the Spassky Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, with the State Emblem of the Soviet Union at upper left. At far right, a Transnistrian adhesive overprint stamp bears a portrait of General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, constituting the principal distinguishing element of this issue. |
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| Reverse lettering | ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ПОДДЕЛКА БИЛЕТОВ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО БАНКА СССР ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ (Translation: Five Rubles, Forgery of the notes of the State Bank of the USSR is punishable by law) |
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Transnistria's monetary history is compressed and strange. The Transnistrian Republican Bank began issuing its own currency in 1993 following the breakaway republic's brief but bloody 1992 war with Moldova, and this 1994 series reflects a denomination already showing the strain of severe inflation — 5,000 roubles was a practical, everyday value for only a short time before higher denominations were required.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" date in the catalog data almost certainly refers to something unrelated to the press run — likely a misattributed field or database artifact. No banknote issued in 1994 was printed in April 1945.