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100 Lei Peleș Castle
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ROMANIA 100 LEI 2015 |
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Issued as part of Romania's ongoing numismatic program commemorating the country's historic royal residences, this piece honors Peleș Castle in Sinaia, built under Carol I beginning in 1873 as a summer retreat and completed in 1914. The castle was the first in Europe to have central heating and its own electricity plant — details that made it a genuine engineering curiosity at the time of construction, not merely an architectural statement.
Romania nationalized Peleș in 1948 under communist rule; it remained closed to the public for much of Ceaușescu's tenure and became the subject of a prolonged restitution dispute with the royal family after 1989 that was still unresolved when this coin was struck.