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1 Leu - Ferdinand I
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Currency | First leu (1867-1947) |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the Romanian national coat of arms depicted in large format, incorporating the quartered royal arms with eagle, bull, lion, and dolphin. The legend ROMANIA arcs across the upper field, flanked on each side by three six-pointed stars. The national motto NIHIL SINE DEO (Nothing Without God) appears below the shield, with the date 1924 positioned at the bottom of the field. The design is rendered in a classical heraldic style with a beaded border encircling the entire obverse. |
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| Mintage | 1924 - Brussels Mint; thin flan; without privy mark - 100,000,000 1924 - Poissy Mint; thick flan; with thunderbolt - 100,006,255 |
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Romania's postwar monetary reconstruction prompted a sweeping coinage reform in the early 1920s, and the 1924 leu was struck not in Bucharest but contracted out to the Poissy mint in France — identifiable by the thunderbolt privy mark — and to Birmingham. The two-mint production was a practical necessity: Romanian minting infrastructure had been severely disrupted during the German occupation of Bucharest from 1916 to 1918, when the country's own equipment and reserves were either destroyed or relocated east to Iași.