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2000 Lei Mihai Eminescu
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#157 |
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| Obverse lettering | ANUL 2000 2000 LEI ROMANIA |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of Eminescu's birth, this coin was produced at a moment when Romania was still navigating the economic wreckage of the 1990s — hyperinflation had by then eroded the leu so catastrophically that 2,000 lei was a denomination of almost no practical value. The choice of face value was essentially ceremonial.
Eminescu died in 1889 under circumstances still debated: institutionalized at Mănăstirea Neamț, his final years clouded by mental illness possibly worsened by mercury treatments for syphilis. Romanian nationalism has long made his biography uncomfortable to examine plainly.