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1000 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Nationala a Romaniei |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of the national poet Mihai Eminescu at right, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint; a lily flower and a quill pen appear at centre, with the bank monogram in the upper-right corner. Denomination numerals and issuer title are rendered in letterpress across the upper and lower margins. Birth and death years of Eminescu (1850–1889) are inscribed beneath his name. |
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| Protection description | Mihai Eminescu's portrait embedded in the paper; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Romania's shift to polymer banknotes was well underway by the late 1990s, making this 1998 cotton paper 1000 Lei something of a transitional footnote — the country had already begun experimenting with polymer issues and would complete its move to that substrate in the early 2000s before the sweeping redenomination of 2005 wiped out four zeros and rendered the entire old Lei series obsolete overnight.
Thomas De La Rue's engraver James Moore is credited on the plate. De La Rue had printed Romanian notes across several political regimes; the relationship predates the communist period entirely.