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1000 Lei Union of Basarabia with Romania
| Issuer | National Bank of Moldova |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Against a mirror-polished proof field, the central device depicts the coat of arms of the Republic of Moldova: a displayed eagle bearing a shield charged with the traditional Moldovan symbols of an aurochs head, star, rose, and crescent. The eagle holds an olive branch in its dexter talon and a sceptre in its sinister talon, with a patriarchal cross in its beak. The legend REPUBLICA MOLDOVA arcs vertically along the left and right fields respectively, with the date 2018 inscribed at the top and the denomination 1000 LEI displayed prominently at the base, separated by a horizontal rule. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The union commemorated here — the 1918 incorporation of Bessarabia into Romania following the collapse of the Russian Empire — remained politically toxic in Soviet Moldova and was officially suppressed as a historical event for decades. When Moldova declared independence in 1991, the question of whether 1918 represented liberation or annexation became immediately contested again. That the National Bank of Chișinău issued this coin at the centenary says something about where official historiography had landed by 2018, even as the political argument remained very much alive domestically.