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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 of three male figures in a socialist-realist style, the leftmost holding a flaming torch and an ear of wheat, the group arranged in three-quarter portrait against a lightly guilloche-patterned ground. The denomination UNA SUTĂ LEI and date 5 DECEMVRIE 1947 appear in bold letterpress at centre-left, flanked by the bank title BANCA NAȚIONALĂ A ROMÂNIEI across the top and the numeral 100 at each upper corner. Two manuscript signatures — Governor at left and Casier Central at right — appear below the date, with an anti-counterfeiting legal warning in small text at lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 100 ROMANIA UNA SUTA LEI UNA SUTA LEI BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI |
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This note was issued in the final, chaotic months of the Romanian monarchy. By late 1947, hyperinflation had already gutted the leu — Romania had undergone a stabilization reform in August 1947 that redenominated currency at 20,000 old lei to one new leu, making most earlier paper worthless overnight. Notes issued after that reform, including this series, circulated into the abdication of King Michael I on 30 December 1947 and the immediate proclamation of the Romanian People's Republic.
The transition meant this issue had an exceptionally short active life before new republican-era notes displaced it entirely.