Catalog
100 Lei
| Issuer | National Bank of Moldova |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | At centre-left, an intaglio portrait of Ștefan cel Mare faces right, flanked by three vertical decorative guilloche elements and a central rosette underprint; the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Moldova appears at upper left, with the NBM logo and the Governor's facsimile signature of D. Drăguțanu below. The nominal value is rendered in both figures and words against a multicoloured national ornamental underprint, with the series and serial number at lower left, and the circular legend PE-UN PICIOR DE PLAI, PE-O GURA DE RAI... alongside a victory token 'V' and the year of issue 2015; the obligatory penal clause FALSIFICAREA ACESTOR BILETE SE PEDEPSEŞTE CONFORM LEGILOR runs along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA MOLDOVA BANCA NAȚIONALĂ A MOLDOVEI ȘTEFAN CEL MARE PE-UN PICIOR DE PLAI, PE-O GURA DE RAI... FALSIFICAREA ACESTOR BILETE SE PEDEPSEŞTE CONFORM LEGILOR GUVERNATOR D. Drăguțanu 100 |
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Moldova's 100 Lei series has been printed by the Banque de France's printing works — the same facility responsible for French franc production before euro adoption — since the mid-1990s, an arrangement that reflects the limited infrastructure options available to newly independent post-Soviet states rather than any particular bilateral relationship. The 2015 date on this note indicates a reprint within the long-running P#25 series, not a redesign.
For a note of this value, the security specification is notably sparse — watermark only, with none of the optical variable ink or security threads that became routine on comparable denominations elsewhere in Eastern Europe by the 2010s.