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In 2021 National Bank of Romania has officially presented the new 20-lei banknote, which has been put into circulation starting from 1 December 2021. It is the first banknote with legal tender to feature a female personality. [1] It is printed using the offset printing technique (like the one leu and five lei 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] In November 2021 the National Bank of Romania announced that the 20 lei banknote bearing Ecaterina Teodoroiu's portrait would be issued on 1 December 2021. [5] [6]
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.
The two hundred lei banknote is one of the circulating denomination of the Romanian leu. [1]The main color of the banknote is orange. It pictures, on the obverse a poet, Lucian Blaga, and on the reverse a watermill and a figurine known in Romania as the Thinker of Hamangia (Romanian: Gânditorul de la Hamangia).
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 ...
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 Silver 999‰ 100 lei 21 mm 6.452 g Gold 900‰ 10 lei 37 mm 31.103 g Silver 999‰ 3 September 2007 500
The issue of the 20 lei banknote was postponed to the autumn of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [23] In November 2021 the National Bank of Romania announced that the 20 lei banknote bearing Ecaterina Teodoroiu's portrait would be issued on 1 December 2021. [24] It was the first Romanian banknote with legal tender to feature a female ...
However, on 1 July 2005, Romania redenominated its currency at 10,000 old lei to 1 new leu. The 1,000 lei coin, in use since 2000, was replaced by the new ten-bani. Early issues of the coin, from its first year 2005, have a diameter 0.1mm narrower than the official measurements.