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5 Lei Pattern
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | First leu (1867-1947) |
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| Obverse description | Within a recessed circular field, a kneeling female figure is depicted in profile facing right, her body nude from the waist up, bending forward in a posture of labor or devotion and holding a small vessel or lamp in her outstretched hands. A floral ornament adorns her hair. The legend ROMANIA appears along the lower rim in raised Latin characters, with the date 1922 directly below, separated by a line from the figure above. |
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| Obverse lettering | ROMANIA 1922 |
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Romania's postwar monetary reorganization produced a wave of pattern coinage in the early 1920s as the government evaluated new denominations and compositions for a unified currency — the country had nearly doubled in size after 1918, absorbing Transylvania, Bessarabia, and Bukovina, each with its own circulating coinage. The bronze 5 Lei pattern of 1922 was never adopted for circulation; the denomination eventually appeared in aluminum-bronze rather than bronze proper.
Stamb#116-1.1 places this among the earliest documented die trials for the type.