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10 Lei IYC
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ROMANIA 10 LEI |
| Reverse description | A portrait of the distinguished Romanian chemist Costin Nenițescu is depicted in the central field, surrounded by stylized representations of chemical laboratory instruments and an atomic orbital symbol commemorating the International Year of Chemistry. Inscriptions identifying the subject, the occasion, and the year of issue frame the design. |
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The International Year of Chemistry, commemorated here, marked the centenary of Marie Curie's 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — her second Nobel, awarded less than two years after her husband Pierre's death and during a period when the French press was actively campaigning to have her expelled from the Académie des Sciences on the grounds that she was a woman and a foreigner. Romania has a particular claim on the occasion: Curie was born in Warsaw, but her scientific lineage runs through French institutions that had deep ties to Romanian students studying abroad in the early twentieth century.