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250 Lei - Carol II
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Composition | Silver (.750) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of King Carol II occupying the central field, rendered in high relief with finely detailed facial features in a classical portrait style. The circular legend reads CAROL II REGELE ROMANILOR along the upper periphery. The date 1935 and the engraver's signature I. Jalea appear in small characters below the truncation near the lower field. |
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| Edge | Ornamented reeded |
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Romania's 1935 coinage program under Carol II operated under the shadow of the king's authoritarian consolidation — he had dissolved the constitution and established his royal dictatorship just three years earlier. The 250 Lei denomination occupied an awkward middle tier in a currency system still recovering from the severe inflation that had gutted the Leu after World War I, when the currency lost roughly 75% of its prewar value against gold.
KM#53 is occasionally found with uneven luster across the fields, a known characteristic of the Bucharest mint's production tolerances in this period rather than post-strike handling.