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The 500 lei coins were very thick (about 0.3 cm). 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 ...
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).
The banknote was designed by the Romanian artist Nicolae Săftoiu , who is credited with all Romanian banknote designs from the 1989 Revolution until his death in 2017. [2] In observance of the coming millennium, the obverse of the note displays a rendering of the Solar System viewed from afar, showing all of the planets revolving around the Sun.
The Eisenhower dollar is the final regular-issue dollar coin to have been minted in silver (collectors and proof issues were minted with a purity of 40% Ag [84]), the final dollar coin to be minted in the original large size, [85] and the only circulating "large dollar" (that is, of the same 38mm diameter as earlier 90 percent dollar coins) to ...
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).
History of the Romanian coinage – replica of the first pol (equal to 20 lei) koson 20 mm 8.5 g Gold 999‰ irregular 21 February 2005 History of the Romanian coinage – replica of a koson (Dacian coin) 500 lei: 37 mm: 31.1030 g: Silver 999‰ smooth 8 April 2005 500 125 years since the founding of the National Bank of Romania: 35 mm Gold 999‰
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 first leu coin was minted in Romania in 1870. [6] Before 1878 the silver Russian ruble was valued so highly as to drive the native coins out of circulation. Consequently, in 1889, Romania unilaterally joined the Latin Monetary Union and adopted a gold standard. Silver coins were legal tender only up to 50 lei.