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50 Bani Aurel Vlaicu
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2010-2016 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Lettered: ROMANIA |
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Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian aviation pioneer who built and flew his own aircraft — the Vlaicu I and Vlaicu II — in 1910 and 1911, making him one of the earliest constructors of a functional monoplane in Europe. He died in 1913 attempting to cross the Carpathians by air, a flight intended partly as a nationalistic gesture toward Transylvania, then still under Austro-Hungarian control. The coin series bearing his image was introduced as Romania phased out its earlier nickel-clad steel issues in favor of this nickel brass alloy.