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50 000 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Nationala a Romaniei |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The Sphinx of the Carpathian Mountains, a natural rock formation, rises at left centre against a pale guilloche background. A musical staff with notes from Enescu's opera Oedip arches across the upper portion of the note. The denomination and bank title appear at lower centre and upper right respectively. |
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| Protection description | George Enescu's portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Romania's hyperinflationary spiral of the 1990s forced successive redenominations and escalating face values — by 2000, a 50,000 Lei note was worth roughly $2 USD. The denomination existed purely because the alternative was printing even larger stacks of lower-value notes for ordinary transactions.
P#109A belongs to the late paper series before Romania's transition to polymer, which began with the 2001 issues. The security specification on this series was notably thin for the denomination — watermark and thread only, at a time when counterfeiting pressure on high-face-value Lei notes was a documented concern for the BNR.