Catalog
100 Lei Great Union
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Non-circulating banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a historical vignette of the royal cortege entering Bucharest on 1 December 1918, accompanied by a detail of King Ferdinand I's mace and four female figures in regional folk costumes representing Bessarabia, Romania, Transylvania, and Bukovina. The bank title "BANCA NAȚIONALĂ A ROMÂNIEI" runs horizontally across the upper portion, with the NBR logo repeated in the upper right and lower left corners; the face value "100" is placed vertically in the upper left and horizontally in the lower right, with "UNA SUTĂ LEI" in the lower left, while the serial number appears horizontally in red ink with ascending character heights at left and vertically in black ink at right, and the anti-counterfeiting legend "FALSIFICAREA ACESTOR BILETE SE PEDEPSEȘTE CONFORM LEGILOR" is printed along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCA NAȚIONALĂ A ROMÂNIEI 100 UNA SUTĂ LEI 100 FALSIFICAREA ACESTOR BILETE SE PEDEPSEȘTE CONFORM LEGILOR |
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Issued to mark the centenary of the 1918 unification of Transylvania, Bukovina, and Bessarabia with the Romanian Old Kingdom, this note is one of the more deliberately commemorative polymer issues to come out of the BNR — though it circulates as legal tender rather than functioning purely as a collector piece. Romania's transition to polymer for its higher denominations began in earnest in the 2000s, making this late-series issue part of an already-established substrate policy rather than an experiment.
The Great Union centenary prompted commemorative output across multiple formats in Romania; this circulating note is the more consequential of them, printed by the Note Printing Australia technology platform that underpins most BNR polymer work.