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10 Lei Peles Palace
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ROMANIA 10 LEI 2015 |
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| Reverse lettering | CASTELUL PELES 1875 |
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Peleș Castle was completed in 1883 as a summer residence for Carol I, the first king of Romania under the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty. Construction ran for nearly a decade under architect Wilhelm Doderer, with subsequent phases continuing into the early twentieth century. Carol reportedly supervised design decisions personally, resulting in an unusually eclectic German Neo-Renaissance structure that sat conspicuously at odds with its Carpathian surroundings.
The castle's post-WWII fate was grim: nationalized by the communist regime in 1948, stripped of much of its collection, and intermittently closed to Carol's descendants for decades. A protracted ownership dispute between the Romanian state and the Hohenzollern heirs was still unresolved when this coin was issued.