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50 Bani - Carol I Pattern Strike
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the denomination 50 BANI in two lines of bold serif lettering, enclosed within a wreath composed of two branches — an olive branch on the left and an oak branch on the right — tied together at the base with a ribbon bow. Four small six-pointed stars are placed symmetrically in the field flanking the wreath. The country name ROMANIA arches along the upper periphery, and the date 1869 is inscribed in the exergue below the wreath, all within a dentillated border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Romania's monetary system was formalized under the Latin Monetary Union framework in 1867, but the new kingdom struggled to establish consistent domestic coinage in the years immediately following. These 1869 pattern strikes were part of the exploratory process of settling designs before committing to full production runs — Carol I, only three years into his reign after arriving from the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen line, was actively consolidating legitimacy, and coinage was a direct instrument of that project.
Pn18 is among a clutch of silver patterns from this year that never advanced to circulation. Struck in extremely limited numbers, survivorship is a matter of record rather than speculation.