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1 Leu Mircea Eliade
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the face value '1 LEU' is rendered in bold relief within the inner field. The Romanian coat of arms is displayed prominently in the upper portion of the coin. Below the arms, the year of issue '2007' and the national legend 'ROMANIA' are inscribed in Latin characters, completing the obverse design. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Eliade's birth, this coin entered circulation the same year Romania held its first major retrospective of his academic work since the communist period — decades during which his writings were effectively banned due to his association with the Iron Guard in the 1930s. That political history made any official Romanian commemoration of Eliade a complicated matter for most of the postwar period.
Tombac, a brass alloy, was the chosen substrate for Romania's collector-circulation crossover issues of this period rather than the cupro-nickel used elsewhere in the series.