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Central vignette of an allegorical female figure representing Romania, laureate and robed in a chiton, seated and surrounded by six children. Wide ornamental border with rinceau scrollwork encloses the design, with two value medallions at top and two blank watermark medallions at bottom corners. |
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Circular vignette at top bears a golden eagle in flight carrying the Romanian coat of arms. Within the central medallion, intaglio figures of an ironsmith, a fisherman, a peasant woman, and a woman with child surround the legal penalty inscription. Two blank oval watermark medallions appear in the left and right fields, each surmounted by a value numeral. |
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This is not a note printed in 1880 — it is a wartime stopgap. The Romanian National Bank, unable to commission new designs amid the chaos of the final months of World War II, authorized an overprint on existing 100 Lei stock, recycling a plate design that Bramtot and Duval had originally created decades earlier. The "1880 Provisional Issue" designation reflects the original artwork's vintage, not a reissue of an 1880 note.
Dujardin's engraving work, done for the French printing trade, found itself still in service some sixty-five years after the plates were first cut.