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100 Lei Alexei Mateevici
| Issuer | National Bank of Moldova |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Leu (1993-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA MOLDOVA 2017 100 LEI |
| Reverse description | The reverse features a half-length portrait of Alexei Mateevici set against a background incorporating the outline map of the Republic of Moldova. An excerpt from his celebrated poem 'Limba Noastră' is inscribed in the field. The upper portion of the coin, following the circumference, bears the legend 'ALEXEI MATEEVICI' accompanied by his years of life '1888–1917'. |
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Alexei Mateevici died in August 1917 at twenty-six, a Romanian Orthodox priest and poet who had been conscripted into the Russian Imperial Army as a military chaplain. His poem Limba Noastră — written that same year — later became Moldova's national anthem, making him the only person whose work forms the lyrical foundation of a state he never lived to see exist. This gold issue marks the centenary of both the poem and his death.