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100 Lei

Issuer Banca Națională a României
Year 2005
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Value 100 Lei 100 RON = EUR 19
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Reverse description Vignette of the Old National Theatre of Bucharest at centre with a statue of Caragiale at left; BNR guilloche logo at upper right and lower left corners. Denomination repeated in digits and words across the design. SPECIMEN overprint in red; specimen number in black at lower right. Anti-counterfeiting legal notice along lower margin.
Reverse lettering BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI
100
100
FALSIFICAREA ACESTOR BILETE SE PEDEPSESTE CONFORM LEGILOR
UNA SUTA LEI 100
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Romania's polymer conversion began in 1999, which makes this 2005 paper issue something of an anomaly — by this point the National Bank had already been issuing polymer notes for six years, and paper was being phased out rather than introduced. P#121 belongs to a transitional window where both substrates coexisted, though paper examples from this period wore out faster and were withdrawn more aggressively than their polymer counterparts.

The 2005 date also coincides with Romania's redenomination: on 1 July 2005, the leu was rebased at 10,000 old lei to 1 new leu, making this note a product of — and casualty of — that reform.

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