Catalog
50 000 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Nationala a Romaniei |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Third leu (1952-2005) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of composer George Enescu in intaglio at right, with his name and life dates (1881–1955) inscribed below. At centre, a vignette of a rose blossom with musical notes and stave against a lilac guilloche underprint. The bank monogram appears within a rosette at upper centre, and the coat of arms of Romania is at upper left. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI 50.000 50.000 FALSIFICAREA ACESTOR BILETE SE PEDEPSESTE CONFORM LEGILOR CINCIZECI MII lei 50.000 |
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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.