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500 000 Roubles
| Issuer | Pridnestrovian Republican Bank |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Currency | Second rouble (1994-2000) |
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| Obverse lettering | ПРИДНЕСТРОВЬЕ КУПОН 500 000 РУБЛЕЙ БАНКЭ НИСТРЯНЭ ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКИЙ БАНК ПРІДНІСТРІВСЬКИЙ БАНК (Translation: Transnistria, Coupon, 500,000 Rubles, Bank of Transnistria) |
| Reverse description | A central intaglio vignette presents the Parliament building in Tiraspol, a modernist columned structure surrounded by trees and street lighting, set within a rectangular frame. To the left of the vignette, a light blue map outline serves as an additional underprint element, while interlocking multicolour guilloche patterns in green, pink, and teal fill the surrounding areas. The denomination appears in large Cyrillic lettering along the lower portion of the vignette and in Arabic numerals at the lower right. |
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Transnistria's 1997 high-denomination paper issues emerged from one of the more peculiar monetary situations in post-Soviet history. The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic was — and legally remains — an unrecognized state, meaning its currency had no standing in international exchange markets and circulated purely by local administrative fiat. The 500,000 rouble figure reflects the inflationary spiral that followed the introduction of the Transnistrian rouble in 1994, itself a replacement for provisional coupon money.
The series was short-lived. A redenomination in 2000 replaced these notes at 1,000,000 old roubles to 1 new rouble, effectively wiping out the face value entirely.