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100 Lei 1998 Winter Olympics
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the Romanian coat of arms flanked by the Olympic flame and five stylized snowflakes, symbolizing the winter games. The denomination 100 LEI appears below the coat of arms, with the issuer name ROMANIA inscribed in the field. A curved legend along the upper periphery reads JOCURILE OLIMPICE DE IARNA NAGANO 1998, identifying the Nagano Winter Olympic Games. The date 1998 is also present in the field. The design is executed in a clean, modern commemorative style. |
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| Mintage | 1998 - Proof - 13,500 |
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Romania issued this piece as part of a broader run of commemorative silver coins produced through the late 1990s, a period when the National Bank was aggressively licensing Olympic themes alongside several other Eastern European central banks looking to generate hard currency revenue from collector markets abroad. The Nagano Games of 1998 attracted an unusually high number of issuing authorities — well over forty countries produced official commemoratives — making this a crowded field for collectors.
KM#141 had a mintage ceiling typical of the series, though actual distribution into collector hands was heavily intermediary-dependent, with most pieces moving through European coin dealers rather than domestic Romanian channels.