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Despite their small value, it took only a handful of such coins to fill one's pocket. They were also made of poor material and could be occasionally found with bite marks. The 1000 lei coin was considered too small and was also cheaply made, and the 5000 lei coin was not circular (it was a dodecagon ).
A 500 lei coin and the 2,000 lei note shown above were made in order to celebrate the 1999 total solar eclipse. Whereas the 500 lei coin is currently very rare, becoming a prized collector's item, the 2,000 lei note was quite popular, being taken out of circulation in 2004 (a long time after the 1,000 and 5,000 lei bills were replaced by coins).
Year of issue, the new National Bank Palace, Coat of arms of Romania, value, "ROMANIA" Funding year (1880), the old National Bank Palace, bank's logo on a shield with ornaments, "130 ANI" "BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI" 30 April 2010 1,500 130 years since the funding of the National Bank of Romania: 10 lei: 31.103 g: Silver 999‰ 3,000 200 lei ...
20 lei gold coin from 1870 (21mm diameter, 6.43g weight) 5 lei coin minted in 1883 500-leu banknote of 1936, King Carol II of Romania In 1860, the Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza attempted to create a national românul ("the Romanian") and the romanat ; however, the project was not approved by the Ottoman Empire.
Through the Organic Regulations adopted in 1831 in Wallachia and in 1832 in Moldova stabilized the coinage used in the Romanian Lands: the Austrian florin and a silver coin known to numismatists as the Zwainziger from Zwanziger, "twentieth", the Tyrolian kreuzer, worth 20 Veronese denarii (in German Berner, in Latin denarii cruciati, cruciati meaning "crossed", from the cross on the coin).
A director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is demanding that Romania's central bank withdraw from circulation a commemorative coin of an anti-Semitic former church leader who forced many ...
The one leu coin was a coin of the Romanian leu. Introduced in 1870, it last circulated between 1992 and de facto 1996, when it was the lowest-denomination coin in the country. Introduced in 1870, it last circulated between 1992 and de facto 1996, when it was the lowest-denomination coin in the country.
The fifty-bani coin is a coin of the Romanian leu.The fifty-bani is also the only coin of Romania to not be steel-based, but be made completely of an alloy, and was also the first coin in the country to have a written inscription on its edge, with the introduction of 4 new coins in 2019.