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10 Lei Mitita Constantinescu
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Weight | 31.103 g |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a three-quarter perspective view of the National Bank of Romania's neoclassical headquarters building in Bucharest, rendered in fine relief against a mirror-polished field. The Romanian state coat of arms, depicting an eagle displayed, appears in the upper left field. The legend ROMANIA arcs along the upper periphery, with the denomination 10 LEI inscribed in the upper central field, and the date 2015 positioned along the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ROMANIA 10 LEI 2015 |
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Mitita Constantinescu served as Governor of the National Bank of Romania from 1934 to 1948 — a tenure that spanned the Great Depression, the Second World War, Romania's forced alignment with Nazi Germany's economic sphere, and ultimately the communist takeover that ended his career. The BNR issued this piece as part of its long-running silver commemorative series honoring figures from the bank's institutional history.
Constantinescu oversaw the 1947 monetary reform that replaced the old leu at a rate of 20,000 old lei to one new leu, one of the most drastic currency revaluations in Romanian history.