5 Lei - Ferdinand I Pattern Strike

Romania's postwar coinage overhaul took years to materialize. Ferdinand I had been king since 1914, but the expanded Romania that emerged from the 1918 unification of Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia needed new currency to match its new borders — and the 1922 patterns were part of that protracted design process, most of which never reached circulation.

KM#Pn192 in bronze is a trial strike, almost certainly produced for official review rather than public release. The definitive 5 Lei coinage that eventually followed used different specifications entirely.