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In 1867, copper 1, 2, 5 and 10 bani were issued, with gold 20 lei (known as poli after the French Napoleons) first minted the next year. These were followed, between 1870 and 1873, by silver 50 bani, 1 and 2 lei. Silver 5 lei were added in 1880. Uniquely, the 1867 issue used the spelling 1 banu rather than 1 ban.
5 lei 30 mm 15.55 g Silver 999‰ 100 lei 21 mm 6.452 g Gold 900‰ 1 leu 37 mm 23.5 g Copper-plated tombac 2 July 2007 Ştefan cel Mare: 5 lei 30 mm 15.55 g Silver 999‰ 100 lei 21 mm 6.452 g Gold 900‰ 1 leu 37 mm 23.5 g Copper-plated tombac 20 August 2007 130 130th Anniversary of the Independence of Romania: 5 lei 30 mm 15.551 g
The 1 July 2005, 1 December 2006, and 1 December 2008 issues will continue to be legal tender and circulate in parallel with the revised banknotes. On 31 July 2019, the National Bank of Romania announced that it planned to issue the 20 lei banknote, which will feature Ecaterina Teodoroiu , in 2020. [ 4 ]
The five lei banknote is one of the circulating denomination of the Romanian leu.It is the same size as the 10 Euro banknote.. The main color of the banknote is purple. It pictures, on the obverse composer and violinist George Enescu, and on the reverse the Romanian Athenaeum, headquarters of the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, a piano, and a line from his opera, Œdipe.
The exchange rate was pegged at 167.20 lei to US$1 on 7 February 1929, US$1 = 135.95 lei on 5 November 1936, US$1 = 204.29 lei on 18 May 1940, and US$1 = 187.48 lei on 31 March 1941. During Romania's World War II alliance with Nazi Germany , the leu was pegged to the reichsmark at a rate of 49.50 lei to RM 1, falling to 59.5 lei = RM 1 in April ...
It is the same size es the 5 Euro banknote. The main color of the current banknote is green. It pictures, on the obverse Prime-minister and historian Nicolae Iorga , and on the reverse the Curtea de Argeş Cathedral , which suffered a massive restoration under his Government, and a crossed eagle, the Wallachian traditional heraldic element.
On 1 July 2005, Romania redenominated its currency at the rate of 10,000 old lei to 1 new leu. The new fifty-bani coin thus replaced the old 5,000 lei coin which had been the largest denomination. Early versions of the coin from 2005 are 0.15mm narrower in diameter, at 23.6mm. [9] The coin was sold to large shops in rolls of fifty coins. [10]
The series of 1893 introduced a variety of frames, and the first stamps denominated in lei. A 2005 Romanian stamp featuring Dimitrie C. Butculescu, the founder of the Romanian Philatelic Society, and an 1892 issue of The Official Gazette of the Romanian Philatelic Society A 2005 Romanian stamp dedicated to the founding of the Romanian ...