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200 Lei - Mihai I
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Engraver(s) | Haralambie Ionescu |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of King Mihai I of Romania rendered in high relief. The portrait is unadorned and presents the young king in a naturalistic style. A circular legend in Latin script surrounds the effigy reading MIHAI I REGELE ROMANILOR, meaning 'Mihai I, King of the Romanians.' The engraver's signature H. IONESCU appears in the lower field below the truncation. |
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| Mintage | 1945 - - 1,399,000 |
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Romania's wartime coinage by 1945 was being issued under conditions of near-total economic collapse. The country had switched sides in August 1944, and the Soviet occupation that followed brought immediate monetary disruption — inflation was accelerating rapidly, and nickel brass was already a concession to metal shortages that had been degrading Romanian coinage since the early war years. Mihai I was nominally king but increasingly powerless, and within three years the communists would force his abdication at gunpoint on December 30, 1947.