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10 Lei Maria Tănase
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A right-facing portrait bust of the celebrated Romanian folk singer Maria Tănase occupies the central field, rendered in fine relief. The arc inscription MARIA TANASE appears along the upper periphery, while the dates 1913-1963, marking the years of her birth and death, are inscribed in the lower field. |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Maria Tănase's birth, this piece honors Romania's most significant folk and lăutari-influenced vocalist, whose recordings in the 1930s and 1940s preserved regional musical forms that might otherwise have been lost to postwar homogenization under Communist cultural policy. The regime that outlawed much of what she sang permitted her to perform largely because her popularity was simply too vast to suppress — she died in 1963, just before the cultural restrictions of the Ceaușescu years tightened further.