50 000 Roubles

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.