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100 Lei - Carol II Pattern
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of King Carol II occupying the central field, rendered in high relief with finely detailed facial features. The portrait is surrounded by a continuous decorative border of interlaced foliate and scroll motifs. The circular legend reads CAROL II REGELE ROMANILOR, distributed around the upper and lateral periphery within the ornamental border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Pattern coins of Carol II's reign carry unusual political weight. By 1940, Carol was ruling as a royal dictator under his 1938 constitution, but his position collapsed catastrophically in the summer of that year — forced to cede northern Transylvania to Hungary under the Vienna Award in August, then abdicated under pressure from the Iron Guard and the military in September. A pattern struck in 1940 almost certainly never progressed to an approved production run precisely because the regime issuing it ceased to exist before that could happen.
The gold-clad bronze composition suggests this was a cost-reduction proposal, not a prestige piece. Stamb#179 is among the last documented numismatic projects of the Carol II administration.