Catalog
5 Parale Pattern
| Issuer | United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1860 Romanian pattern issues were struck in anticipation of a unified national coinage following the 1859 election of Alexandru Ioan Cuza as ruler of both Wallachia and Moldavia — a political union the great powers had permitted only grudgingly, and for which no monetary infrastructure yet existed. Cuza's government explored multiple denominations and compositions before Romania's coinage system was formalized, meaning most 1860 patterns never advanced to circulation strikes.
MBR#184 is among the rarer documented pattern references from this transitional period.