100 Lei Romanian Revolution of 1848

The 1848 revolution in the Danubian Principality of Wallachia was suppressed within three months — Ottoman and Tsarist Russian forces jointly crushing the provisional government before it could consolidate. The revolutionaries' demands, including emancipation of serfs and a constitutional assembly, would go largely unfulfilled for another two decades, making 1848 in Romania a notably incomplete episode compared to its Western European counterparts.

Romania has issued commemorative gold pieces marking the 175th anniversary of those events. The .900 fine standard used here follows the long-established Romanian commemorative gold specification rather than the .999 fineness now common among modern issues.