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| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Currency | Fourth leu (2005-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | IOAN ANDREESCU 1850 - 1882 |
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Ioan Andreescu (1850–1882) died at thirty-one, leaving behind roughly a decade of serious work — yet he remains one of the most consequential figures in Romanian painting. He trained in Paris alongside Grigorescu and absorbed the Barbizon influence directly, though his palette ran darker and his handling of winter landscapes leaner than his better-known contemporary. The National Bank of Romania has issued commemorative silver pieces honoring cultural figures with some regularity since the 1990s, this coin falling within a series that spans painters, writers, and composers.