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5 Roubles
| Issuer | Transnistrian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 2007-2012 |
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| Reference(s) | P#43 |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a detailed intaglio rendering of the administrative building of the KVINT distillery in Tiraspol, a multi-storey modernist structure set within a street scene with trees and vehicles. The denomination numeral 5 appears in guilloche cartouches at both the left and lower-right margins, framed by fine lathe-work borders in blue and violet. The serial number is printed in red at the upper right. |
| Reverse lettering | ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ПОДДЕЛКА БИЛЕТОВ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКОГО БАНКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ 5 (Translation: Five Roubles, Forgery of the banknotes of the Bank of Transnistria is punishable by law) |
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Transnistria's banknotes occupy a peculiar position in modern numismatics: issued by a state unrecognized by any UN member, yet functioning as genuine legal tender within a territory of roughly half a million people. The Transnistrian rouble was introduced in 1994 after the breakaway republic's earlier coupon currency collapsed, and the series to which this note belongs represents the third distinct generation of that currency — a 2007 reissue incorporating revised security and updated serial formatting rather than a wholesale redesign.
Paper with watermark security on a note this small is notably minimal, even by regional standards of the period. Genuine circulation wear on low-denomination Transnistrian notes is common; they were actually used.