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2 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 2 Lei |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI 2 LEI GUVERNATOR DIRECTOR DIRECTORUL CASEI COSTIN P. |
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| Reverse lettering | DOI LEI 17 IULIE 1920 FALSIFICATORII ACESTOR BILETE, ACEI CARI LE VOR FI INTREBUINTAT SAU CARI LE VOR FI INTRODUS IN TARA SAU LE VOR FI PUS IN CIRCULATIUNE, SE VOR PEDEPSI CU INCHISOARE DE LA 5 PANA LA 10 ANI, CU INTERDICTIUNE SI AMENDA, CONF. ART. 117 C. P. COSTIN P. fec |
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Romania's postwar financial position in 1920 was precarious — the country had tripled in territory after 1918 but inherited a chaotic mixture of currencies from the newly absorbed regions, including Hungarian korona, Austrian krone, and Russian rubles still circulating in Bessarabia. Low-denomination notes like this one were essential stopgaps while the central bank worked to assert control over a money supply it barely managed.
Costin Petrescu was primarily a painter and muralist, not a professional banknote designer — his involvement reflects the improvisational nature of Romanian currency production in this period rather than a deliberate commission to a specialist engraver.