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100 000 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 1945-1947 |
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| Shape | Rectangular with undulating edge |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette carries the large intaglio legend UNA SUTA MII LEI across the middle of the note, flanked by two oval guilloche medallions left and right. At left, a standing peasant woman holds a basket above a young boy; at right, a seated peasant woman in traditional Romanian folk dress rests beside a jug. The date of issue appears below the central denomination, with GUVERNATOR and CASIER CENTRAL signature lines beneath, and a fine anti-counterfeiting warning text running along the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI UNA SUTA MII LEI GUVERNATOR CASIER CENTRAL FALSIFICATORII ACESTOR BILETE, ACEI CARE VOR FI INTREBUINTAT BILETE FALSE, COMPLICII LOR, PRECUM SI ACEI CARI VOR FI INCERCAT A COMITE ASEMENEA FAPTE VOR FI PEDEPSITI CONFORM LEGILOR PENALE (Translation: National Bank of Romania One Hundred Thousand Lei Governor Central Cashier The counterfeiters of these banknotes, those who will have used false banknotes, their accomplices, as well as those who will try to commit such deeds will be punished under criminal laws) |
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Romania's postwar hyperinflation was among the most severe in European history outside the Weimar episode. By 1947, prices had escalated to the point where 100,000 Lei was a routine transactional denomination rather than a large note — the same year the Communist-backed government forced King Michael's abdication and replaced the currency entirely with the 1947 leu, wiping out savings at punishing exchange rates.
Pick 58 spans an unusually wide issue window for a single type, reflecting how rapidly the monetary situation deteriorated and how often the same plate series was reprinted to meet demand.