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10 Lei Elena Vacarescu
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Diameter | 37.00 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central oval cartouche containing a finely engraved draped bust of Elena Văcărescu facing left, her hair arranged in an upswept coiffure with curled fringe, wearing a period dress adorned with a floral brooch at the shoulder. Below the portrait, within the cartouche, appears a facsimile of the subject's handwritten signature along with the year 1864, denoting her birth year. The surrounding patinated field bears the legend ELENA arcing along the left border and VĂCĂRESCU along the right border, rendered in raised Latin lettering. |
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Elena Văcărescu was a Romanian poet and diplomat who spent most of her adult life in Paris, becoming the first woman elected to the Académie Roumaine and later serving as a Romanian delegate to the League of Nations. This issue commemorates the 150th anniversary of her birth. The Romanian National Bank's collector silver series has covered literary and cultural figures with some consistency since the 1990s, though Văcărescu remains among the less internationally recognized subjects in that lineup — better known in French literary circles than in her home country's popular memory.