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100 Lei - Carol II Pattern
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Value | 100 Lei |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Carol II facing right, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair and strong facial features in a modernist style. The engraver's signature E.W.BECKER appears in small incuse letters below the truncation. The circular legend reads CAROL II REGELE ROMÂNILOR, disposed along the periphery of the field. The overall composition is clean and uncluttered, with the royal portrait dominating the flan. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Pattern strikes for Romanian issues of this period were typically produced at the Bucharest mint in small numbers for official approval, with most never advancing to circulation coinage. Carol II's reign ended abruptly in September 1940 when he was forced to abdicate following Romania's territorial losses to the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Bulgaria — losses that stripped roughly a third of the country's land in a single summer and ended any practical need for new coinage approvals.
Stamb#171 places this among a cluster of 1939-dated patterns that predate that collapse by less than a year.