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10 Lei
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1877 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Two large white circular guilloche medallions flank a central panel of legal text and value inscriptions, with the Romanian coat of arms positioned at lower centre. The central text block carries a penal warning citing Articles 112 and following of the Penal Code as the prescribed punishment for forgery or the unlawful issuance of notes in excess of the statutory limit. The engravers' credits are repeated in the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Romania's first domestically-authorized paper currency series, of which this is part, was issued in the immediate aftermath of the country's declaration of independence from Ottoman suzerainty during the Russo-Turkish War. The Banca Națională did not yet exist — that institution wouldn't be established until 1880 — so these notes were issued under state authority, a stopgap instrument for a country reconfiguring its finances at speed.
Bramtot and Duval were Imprimerie Nationale staff artists whose names appear across multiple French colonial and foreign government commissions of the period. Dujardin's intaglio work on this series is notably fine for a first-issue contract.