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10 Bani - Carol I
| Issuer | Principality of Romania |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Value | 10 Bani (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the Romanian coat of arms at center: a quartered shield featuring the eagle of Wallachia, the aurochs head of Moldavia, the dolphin of the Danube, and the lion of Oltenia, surmounted by a royal crown. The shield is supported on the left by a female figure in classical dress and on the right by a rampant lion, both standing upon a decorative scrollwork base. A princely mantle with tasseled cords frames the entire composition above, topped by a regal crown. The legend ROMANIA arcs along the upper periphery in large Latin letters, while the motto NIHIL SINE DEO appears on a ribbon scroll at the base of the arms. |
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| Mint | HEATON Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham (Heaton and Sons / The Mint Birmingham Limited),United Kingdom (1850-2003) WATT & CO. James Watt & Co., Smethwick,United Kingdom (1860-1895) |
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Romania's 1867 coinage was its first truly national issue, authorized after the Paris Monetary Convention of 1865 established the Latin Monetary Union framework that Carol I's government adopted almost immediately upon his arrival from the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The Principality had no mint of its own, so these copper pieces were contracted to Heaton's Birmingham Mint and the Strasbourg Mint, producing two distinct varieties distinguishable by their mint marks — "H" for Heaton and "Watt & Co." attribution for the second contractor.
Carol had been on the throne barely a year when these were struck, his reign itself confirmed only by a rigged plebiscite and considerable great-power maneuvering.