Catalog
1000 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 1933 |
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| Designer(s) | Georges Duval |
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| Obverse lettering | FALSIFICATORII ACESTOR BILETE, ACEI CARE VOR FI INTREBUINTAT BILETE FALSE, COMPLICII LOR, PRECUM SI ACEI CARI VOR FI INCERCAT A COMITE ASEMENEA FAPTE VOR FI PEDEPSITI CONFORM LEGILOR PENALE UNA MIIE LEI UNA MIIE LEI BANCA NATIONALE A ROMANIEI 19-VI-15-33 UNA MIIE LEI GUVERNATOR CASIER CENTRAL 1000 1000 GEORGES DUVAL fecit P. DUJARDIN SC. |
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| Protection description | the bank's monogram or portrait visible in the blank oval areas when held to light. |
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Romania's interwar banking establishment had a long-standing arrangement with the Banque de France printing works, and this 1933 issue is a product of that relationship — Duval and Dujardin were among the most technically accomplished engravers working in Paris at the time, and their collaboration produced some of the finest intaglio work to come out of Romanian paper money in the entire interwar period.
The 1000 Lei denomination placed this note at the high end of everyday commerce. Romania had endured catastrophic hyperinflation in the early 1920s following wartime expenditure and territorial reorganization after 1918, and the stabilization of the leu in 1929 gave notes like this one a purchasing power that earlier equivalents had completely lost.
P#34 is the Pick reference for this specific issue within the stabilization-era series.