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1 Leu - Carol I
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1873-1876 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Romania's first sovereign silver coinage was made possible by the Paris Monetary Convention of 1865, which Romania joined as an associate member of the Latin Monetary Union despite not yet being a fully independent state — that wouldn't come until 1877. Carol I, a Hohenzollern prince installed in 1866, pushed hard for a national currency as a deliberate assertion of political autonomy from the Ottoman Empire, which still held nominal suzerainty over the principality. The coins were struck at the Brussels mint.
The 1873–1876 dates span a politically charged window: just after the first emission, Romania entered the Russo-Turkish War on the Russian side, and full independence was declared mid-series.