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1 Rouble
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 1 Rouble (1 PRB) |
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| Obverse description | Left half of the note is occupied by an intaglio-printed bust portrait of General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (1730–1800), founder of Tiraspol, rendered in terracotta-red tones against a multicolour guilloche underprint of floral and lattice patterns. To the right, the numeral "1" is superimposed over an ornate starburst guilloche vignette incorporating the PRB monogram medallion, with the denomination "ОДИН РУБЛЬ" (One Ruble) lettered below. The bank name appears in three scripts — Russian, Ukrainian, and Moldovan — across the upper centre, surmounted by the stylised PRB cipher in the upper right corner, and the year "2000" appears at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the Kitskansky Bridgehead Memorial Complex (Кицканский плацдарм), a Second World War commemorative ensemble rendered in terracotta-red, showing an obelisk monument flanked by trees and low sculptural elements set against a pale guilloche background of interlocking geometric and floral rosette patterns. The serial number prefix and numerals appear to the left in dark red, with the denomination numeral "1" and the legend "ОДИН РУБЛЬ" positioned at the upper right. Horizontal guilloche bands frame the composition at top and bottom, with the site caption "Кицканский плацдарм" inscribed in the lower right field. |
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Transnistria's 2000 note series replaced the provisional coupon issues that had kept the breakaway republic's economy functioning since 1994. The coupons — essentially emergency scrip — had depreciated badly, and the new roubles were introduced at a redenomination rate of 1,000,000 old coupons to one new rouble. That exchange alone signals how severe the monetary instability of the 1990s had been in a territory the international community still does not recognize as a sovereign state.
The Transnistrian Republican Bank operates without IMF membership or correspondent banking relationships available to recognized central banks, a constraint that shaped how this entire series was produced and distributed.