100 Lei - Carol II Pattern

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.