Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Bani - Carol I
| Issuer | Romania |
|---|---|
| Year | 1873-1876 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | 1873 STERN |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Romania's first silver coinage was struck not in Bucharest but in Heaton's Birmingham mint, as the country lacked its own facility capable of producing silver to European monetary union standards. These 50 Bani pieces formed part of the inaugural national coinage issued following Romanian autonomy under the Treaty of Paris, with Carol I — a Hohenzollern prince installed in 1866 — pressing hard for a distinct monetary identity separate from the Ottoman-influenced currencies previously circulating in Wallachia and Moldavia.
The .835 fineness aligns Romania with the Latin Monetary Union specifications, though Romania did not formally join.