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10 Bani - Carol I
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the Steel Crown of Romania — the national crown forged from a captured Ottoman cannon — set within a wreath composed of a laurel branch to the left and an oak branch to the right, the two sprays joined at the base by a ribbon. The date 1900 appears within the wreath below the crown. A raised beaded border (grenetis) frames the entire design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Romania's copper-nickel coinage of this period was produced almost entirely at foreign mints — the Hamburg mint (Hamburgische Münze) struck the bulk of the 1900 issue, as Romania still lacked sufficient domestic minting capacity for base-metal coinage. Carol I had staked considerable political capital on building a modern monetary infrastructure after independence from Ottoman suzerainty in 1877, and these small-denomination pieces were the workhorse of everyday commerce in a largely agrarian economy where banknotes rarely changed hands below the village level.