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5 Bani - Carol I Pattern Strike
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1905 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a raised circular boss or pellet within a ring, flanked by two crossed ribbon-tied scrolls or banderoles extending diagonally across the field. Surmounting the composition is a detailed royal crown with pearled arches and cross finial. The legend ROMANIA is inscribed on a curved ribbon or scroll in the lower portion of the field, rendered in bold relief. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner border and a milled outer rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Pattern strikes for Romanian minor coinage in the early 1900s were produced almost exclusively at the Brussels mint, which had held a near-monopoly on Romanian coin production since the Kingdom's foundational issues of the 1860s. The 1905 brass trial for the 5 Bani was part of a series of compositional experiments as Romania weighed cheaper alloys against the copper-nickel then in circulation. Carol I, by this point four decades into his reign, took an unusually direct personal interest in coinage approvals — several pattern series from his later reign show multiple rejected trials before a final type was authorized.