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2 Lei - Carol I Pattern Strike
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1910 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A full-length figure of a Romanian peasant woman in traditional folk costume, striding to the right and sowing grain from a pouch held at her side, set against a rural landscape featuring sheaves of harvested wheat in the lower field. The denomination 2 LEI appears prominently to the right of the figure in two lines. The legend ROMANIA arcs along the left side of the coin, while the date 1910 is inscribed along the lower right, following the curve of the beaded border. |
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Pattern strikes for Romanian coinage of this period were typically produced at the Brussels mint or in-house at Bucharest, serving as approval pieces submitted to the royal household before production authorization. Carol I took a direct personal interest in coinage design, and multiple competing patterns for standard denominations were struck in off-metal compositions — copper being the most common trial material — precisely to demonstrate relief and die quality under conditions different from the intended silver strikes.
KM#Pn176 is one of several documented 1910 patterns. Whether it advanced to formal royal review or remained a mint exercise is not established in the standard references.