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1 Leu - Carol I Pattern Strike
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1906 |
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| Value | 1 Leu |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROL I REGE AL ROMANIEI * 1866-1906 * A.M. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Romania's 1906 issues were produced for the National Exposition in Bucharest, which marked forty years of Carol I's reign and was explicitly staged to project the image of a modernizing, industrializing nation to European observers. Pattern strikes from this event were produced in multiple metals and compositions as presentation and test pieces, distributed diplomatically rather than circulated.
KM#Pn105 specifically records the gold-plated bronze variant — a deliberate prestige finish applied to a base-metal flan, likely intended for display rather than submission through standard mint approval channels.