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| Issuer | Pridnestrovian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ПРИДНЕСТРОВЬЕ КУПОН 50 000 РУБЛЕЙ БАНКА НИСТРЯНЭ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ БАНК ПРИДНІСТРОВСЬКИЙ БАНК (Translation: Transnistria, Coupon, 50,000 Rubles, Bank of Transnistria) |
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| Reverse lettering | ПОДДЕЛКА БИЛЕТОВ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКОГО БАНКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ ТЕАТР ДРАМЫ И КОМЕДИИ ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ (Translation: Forgery of the banknotes of the Pridnestrovian Bank is punishable by law, Fifty Thousand Rubles, Drama and Comedy Theatre, Chairman) |
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Transnistria's 1996 high-denomination issues arrived during a period of severe monetary instability following the collapse of the Transnistrian rouble's initial series. The 50,000-rouble note was a direct consequence of compounding inflation that made lower denominations functionally useless within just a few years of the breakaway republic's unilateral monetary system taking shape after 1991. Pridnestrovie — a narrow sliver of territory between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border — has never received international recognition, and its banking instruments have no legal standing outside its own borders.
P#28A is distinguished from the closely related P#28 by a difference in serial number font or prefix block — worth checking closely, as the variants are frequently miscatalogued.