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100 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Currency | Second leu (1947-1952) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette to the right presents a group of three male figures in profile, one holding a torch aloft and another clutching ears of corn and a hammer, rendered in fine intaglio engraving in a socialist-realist style. The denomination "UNA SUTA LEI" is set in large letterpress type at the upper centre, flanked by guilloche border ornamentation and the date "25 IUNIE 1947" beneath. A warning text against counterfeiting appears in a cartouche at the lower centre, with the serial number and series letter positioned at lower left and lower right respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 100 ROMANIA UNA SUTA LEI UNA SUTA LEI BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI |
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This issue belongs to the turbulent final chapter of Romanian monarchical banking. The Communist-backed Groza government had been in power since March 1945, but the National Bank still operated nominally under its pre-war charter. The 1947 series was issued just months before King Michael was forced to abdicate on 30 December 1947 and the Romanian People's Republic was proclaimed — making notes of this type among the last issued under the old institutional framework.
A currency reform followed in August 1947, with devastating conversion ratios that wiped out savings held in older denominations. Notes from this series circulated in that collapsing environment.