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100 Lei Dimitrie Cantemir
| Issuer | National Bank of Moldova |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 100 Lei |
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| Reverse description | At center, a detailed portrait scene depicts Dimitrie Cantemir seated at a writing table, rendered in high relief against a plain field. The inscription 'DIMITRIE CANTEMIR' arcs along the upper periphery in raised block letters. The dates '1673' and '1723', denoting his birth and death years, appear in the left field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Dimitrie Cantemir ruled Moldavia briefly in 1693 and again from 1710–1711, defecting to Peter the Great of Russia after the Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Pruth made his position untenable. He spent the remainder of his life in Russian exile, producing scholarly works on Ottoman history and Moldavian geography that earned him membership in the Berlin Academy of Sciences — an unusual distinction for a deposed ruler. The National Bank of Moldova has consistently used its commemorative gold program to assert historical figures claimed by both Romanian and Moldovan national identity, and Cantemir sits squarely at that political fault line.