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5 Bani - Carol I
| Issuer | State Mint (Monetăria Statului), Romania |
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| Year | 1882-1885 |
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| Currency | First leu (1867-1947) |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROL I REGE AL ROMANIEI KULLRICH |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Romania's copper small-denomination coinage of the early 1880s was produced as the newly crowned kingdom — Carol I had taken the royal title in 1881, following independence from Ottoman suzerainty recognized at Berlin in 1878 — needed a full domestic currency to project national legitimacy. The Brussels mint struck the bulk of this series before Romania's own facility in Bucharest was fully operational.
Copper issues of this period circulated hard and were not conserved. Uncirculated survivors are genuinely scarce relative to the silver denominations of the same reign.