Catalog
10 Lei COA with crown
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 2018-2024 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Rose and multicolour underprint with guilloche patterning. At left, a vignette drawn from Grigorescu's works shows a peasant woman in traditional dress carrying a sack on her shoulder; at centre, a traditional Romanian rural house with stone arch entrance and wooden upper gallery. The BNR monogram cipher appears in the upper right corner alongside an optically variable ink element, with denomination numerals at lower right. |
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| Protection description | Nicolae Grigorescu; embedded security thread; optically variable ink element on reverse upper right; transparent polymer window with laser-perforated BNR monogram |
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Romania has issued its 10 Lei note continuously on polymer since 2005, and the P#119 series has accumulated suffix letters steadily through incremental security upgrades rather than full redesigns — by the time the "j" suffix was reached, the changes between iterations were largely invisible to casual handling. The platform itself was pioneered by Note Printing Australia, which produced the earliest issues; later production runs have involved additional contractors as the series matured.
Polymer 10 Lei notes from the 2018–2024 window circulate heavily and show wear faster along the vertical fold lines than paper equivalents would.