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100 Lei Alecu Russo
| Issuer | Banca Națională a Moldovei |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Currency | Leu (1993-date) |
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| Obverse description | At center, the coat of arms of the Republic of Moldova depicting a displayed eagle holding an olive branch in its right talon and a scepter in its left, with a shield on its breast bearing the Moldovan symbols of an aurochs head, star, crescent, and rose. The date 2019 appears in the upper field above the arms, while the legend REPUBLICA curves along the left rim and MOLDOVA along the right rim. The denomination 100 LEI is inscribed in the lower field, separated from the arms by a horizontal line. The design is struck in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Alecu Russo was a 19th-century Moldovan writer and intellectual whose 1840 trial and exile to a monastery in Soveja — ordered by Mihail Sturdza's Iași government — came directly after authorities discovered his involvement in organizing student protests. He is perhaps best remembered for inadvertently preserving the manuscript of Mioriţa, the foundational Romanian pastoral ballad, which he discovered and passed to Vasile Alecsandri for publication.
The Banca Națională a României had long issued commemorative gold in this weight class; Moldova's parallel program reflects a distinct numismatic identity that Chișinău has pursued deliberately since the early 2000s.