50 Bani - Carol I Pattern Strike

Beschrijving voorzijde	Bare-headed bust of Prince Carol I facing right, with short hair and a trimmed beard, rendered in high relief with fine detail to the facial features and hair. The circumferential legend reads CAROL I° DOMNU AL ROMÂNILOR, separated by a stop at the conclusion. The engraver's signature WYON appears incuse on the truncation of the neck. The design is framed by a beaded border.
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Aanvullende informatie	Romania's monetary system was barely two years old when this pattern was struck — the leu had only been formally established in 1867, modeled on the Latin Monetary Union framework. Carol I, freshly installed as hereditary prince following the ousting of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, was still in the process of asserting dynastic legitimacy, and coinage carried obvious political weight in that effort. Pattern strikes of this period were often produced in multiple metals to present options to the nascent monetary authority, with white metal serving as a neutral proof-of-concept material rather than a proposed circulation alloy.