Romania's postwar coinage reform took years to resolve. Ferdinand I had been king since 1914, but a coherent new coin series wasn't finalized until the early 1920s, with multiple competing designs and compositions tested before production standards were settled. Pattern strikes in brass for this denomination were part of that evaluation process — brass was ultimately rejected in favor of other alloys for the circulating issue.
Stamb#113-1.1 places this among a documented sequence of trials, suggesting more than one die pairing was explored at this stage.
Romania's postwar coinage reform took years to resolve. Ferdinand I had been king since 1914, but a coherent new coin series wasn't finalized until the early 1920s, with multiple competing designs and compositions tested before production standards were settled. Pattern strikes in brass for this denomination were part of that evaluation process — brass was ultimately rejected in favor of other alloys for the circulating issue.
Stamb#113-1.1 places this among a documented sequence of trials, suggesting more than one die pairing was explored at this stage.