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| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Reference(s) | P#15 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Moscow Kremlin complex with towers and walls rendered in brown intaglio against a multicolour guilloche underprint; an adhesive stamp bearing a portrait of General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov is affixed at the far right as the Transnistrian validation overprint. The denomination 10000 appears in large numerals in the upper corners, with the full Cyrillic legend ДЕСЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | БАНК РОССИИ ПОДДЕЛКА БИЛЕТОВ БАНКА РОССИИ ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ ДЕСЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: Bank of Russia, Forgery of the notes of the Bank of Russia is punishable by law, Ten Thousand Roubles) |
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Transnistria's breakaway administration issued this note following the 1992 armed conflict with Moldova, during a period when the unrecognized republic was building parallel institutions almost from scratch. The 10,000 rouble denomination reflects the severe inflation that swept through the former Soviet monetary zone in the early 1990s — a problem Transnistria shared with its neighbors but could not address through conventional central banking channels, given its contested status.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field almost certainly refers to a plate or series code rather than an actual press date — 1945 predates Transnistria's existence by nearly five decades.