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200 Lei Ministry of Finance
| Issuer | Ministerul Finanțelor (Ministry of Finance), Romania |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, New York, United States |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in orange-red on plain paper, with the large numeral 200 as the central vignette set within an elaborate guilloche rosette. The issuer name ROMANIA appears at the top and MINISTERUL FINANTELOR is inscribed below it, flanked by symmetrical ornamental guilloche borders and corner rosettes. The denomination DOUA SUTE LEI is displayed in a cartouche along the lower portion, above a panel bearing the anti-counterfeiting warning text. Punch-cancellation holes are visible, consistent with a trial or specimen piece. |
| Reverse lettering | 200 ROMANIA 200 MINISTERUL FINANTELOR 200 DOUA SUTE LEI FALSIFICAREA ACESTOR BILETE, PRE CUM SI CEI CE LE VOR FI INTREBUINTAT SAU INTRODUS IN TARA FALSE, SE VOR PEDEPSI CU INCHISOARE, INTERDICTIUNE SI AMENDA CONFORM CODULUI PENAL |
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Romania's postwar finances were in ruins by 1920 — wartime occupation, German requisitioning, and the collapse of the old leu had left the National Bank unable to keep pace with demand for circulating currency. The Ministry of Finance stepped in as issuer precisely because the central bank's capacity was overwhelmed, a temporary arrangement that produced several denominations printed abroad.
The American Bank Note Company contract placed Romanian currency production in New York at a moment when ABNC was handling similar emergency work for multiple European governments struggling to reconstitute their monetary systems after 1918. Romanian-printed equivalents of this period are notably rougher; the ABNC work is immediately distinguishable by its engraving quality.