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100 Lei - Carol II Pattern
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Currency | First leu (1867-1947) |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROL II REGELE ROMÂNILOR E.W.BECKER (Translation: Carol II, King of Romania) |
| Reverse description | A standing archangel with folded wings occupies the central field, depicted facing forward and holding an upright sword with both hands. In front of the figure, a shield bearing the Romanian royal coat of arms is prominently displayed. The composition is enclosed within an inner circle, with the denomination 100 LEI and the date 19 39 flanking the central device, and the country name ROMANIA inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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Pattern coinage from interwar Romania occupies a peculiar space — pieces struck for approval that never translated into circulation issues, often surviving in tiny quantities across a handful of institutional and private collections. This 1939 date places it in the final months before Romania's position became untenable under competing German and Soviet pressure, with Carol II increasingly relying on his royal dictatorship, established in 1938, to hold the country together.
The gold-clad bronze construction is characteristic of approval strikes intended to simulate the appearance of a gold circulation coin without the material cost of producing multiple full-gold specimens for committee review.