Catalog
1000 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Nationala a Romaniei |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 1000 Lei (1000 ROL) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents the ancient Greek-Roman ruins of Histria fortress, rendered in intaglio with surviving stone columns rising against a hatched sky over the Black Sea shoreline. To the left, a large cornflower blossom and smaller wildflowers are engraved in fine detail against a multicolour guilloche underprint, with the large watermark numeral "1000" printed as a pale blue tint behind the ruins. The bank's cypher appears in the upper right, and the denomination is stated in bold teal and olive numerals at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCA NATIONALA A ROMÂNIEI UNA MIE lei 1.000 (Translation: NATIONAL BANK OF ROMANIA ONE THOUSAND LEI 1.000) |
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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.