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100 Lei Iancu de Hunedoara
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A right-facing portrait bust of Iancu de Hunedoara (John Hunyadi), rendered in high relief, occupies the central field. The inscription IANCU DE HUNEDOARA curves along the upper periphery in an arc. The years of his tenure as Voivode of Transylvania, 1441-1456, are inscribed in the lower field beneath the portrait. |
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Iancu de Hunedoara — János Hunyadi in Hungarian sources — was regent of Hungary from 1446 to 1453 and the principal military organizer of Christian resistance against Ottoman expansion in the Balkans. His 1456 victory at Belgrade halted the Ottoman advance into central Europe for roughly seven decades. Romania has long claimed him as a national hero despite the contested ethnicity question that still surfaces in Romanian-Hungarian historiography.
This is a modern commemorative issue from the National Bank's ongoing series honoring medieval Romanian historical figures, struck in limited quantities for collectors rather than circulation.