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100 Lei Vasile Alecsandri
| Issuer | National Bank of Moldova |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Currency | Leu (1993-date) |
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| Reverse description | At center, a left-facing bust portrait of the poet and playwright Vasile Alecsandri is depicted, accompanied by an open book, a tree branch, and three birds in flight, rendered in a classical commemorative style. Along the upper left periphery, the curved inscription '200 DE ANI DE LA NAȘTERE' is engraved in block letters. In the lower field, the subject's name 'VASILE ALECSANDRI' and his life dates '1821–1890' are inscribed. |
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| Mintage | 2021 - proof - 150 |
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Vasile Alecsandri was one of the towering figures of 19th-century Romanian literary and political life — poet, playwright, diplomat, and a principal architect of Romanian national identity during the unification movement of the 1850s and 1860s. Born in Bacău in what is now Romania, his inclusion on a Moldovan commemorative reflects the shared cultural inheritance that both modern Romania and the Republic of Moldova claim from the pre-partition Moldavian principality. That tension — who owns the legacy of a figure who predates the Soviet-drawn border — is the quiet subtext of this coin's very existence.