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10 Bani ROMINA
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 1955-1956 |
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| Value | 10 Bani (0.10 ROL) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1955 - - 4,100,000 1956 - - 18,400,000 |
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Romania's postwar currency reform of 1952 slashed the leu at brutal exchange rates — as punishing as 400 old lei to one new leu for cash holdings above a threshold — effectively wiping out private savings while stabilizing the state's balance sheet. The 10 bani denominations that followed were workhorses of this new monetary order, circulating through a command economy where price controls made small change genuinely functional rather than vestigial.
The KM#84.3 designation distinguishes this from earlier variants in the series by its copper-nickel alloy, a material shift reflecting both postwar metal allocation priorities and Soviet-influenced industrial policy in Romanian manufacturing.