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1000 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Nationala a Romaniei |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Value | 1000 Lei |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI GUVERNATOR CASIER CENTRAL 1000 UNA MIE LEI 1000 18 IUNIE 1948 |
| Reverse description | The socialist coat of arms of the Romanian People's Republic occupies the centre, surrounded by a rich intaglio vignette of wheat sheaves, sunflowers, and foliate sprays in deep blue over a multicolour guilloche underprint in salmon and teal. The denomination "UNA MIE LEI" is repeated twice in the dark panel at the foot of the note, and an anti-counterfeiting warning text appears in a circular cartouche below the arms. The bank title is inscribed on a ribbon banner at top. |
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This note belongs to the first emission series following Romania's Soviet-backed currency reform of August 1947, which abolished the old leu at a punishing conversion rate and wiped out much of the private savings that had survived the war. The 1948 issues were effectively instruments of the new People's Republic, issued under the authority of a central bank already being restructured along Soviet lines.
P#85 is among the scarcer denominations from this transitional period — the reform-era notes circulated briefly before another redenomination rendered them obsolete, limiting the window in which they saw meaningful use.