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50 Bani Ministry of Finance
| Issuer | Romanian Ministry of Finance |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | First leu (1867-1947) |
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| Obverse lettering | ROMANIA MINISTERUL FINANTELOR 1917 1917 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 MINISTRUL FINANTELOR 50 BANI DIRECTORUL CONTABILITATII Gle A STATULUI CASIERUL Gal AL TEZAURULUI PUBLIC HORATIU SAVA DIMITRIU |
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| Reverse lettering | BANI CINCIZECI 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 NIHIL SINE DEO MF MF FALSIFICATORII ACESTOR BILETE, ACEI CARI LE VOR FI INTREBUINTAT SAU CARI LE VOR FI INTRODUS IN TARA SAU LE VOR FI PUS IN CIRCULATIE SE VOR PEDEPSI CU INCHISOARE DE LA 5 PANA LA 10 ANI CU INTERDICTIE SI AMENDA CONF art. 117 CP |
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Romania entered 1917 with its banking infrastructure shattered — Bucharest had fallen to German and Austro-Hungarian forces in December 1916, and the National Bank had evacuated its reserves to Moscow. With no functional central bank in the occupied capital, the Ministry of Finance stepped in to issue fractional currency from whatever printing capacity remained available in unoccupied territory.
The Army Geographic Service, primarily a military cartography unit, was pressed into banknote production out of necessity rather than expertise. That origin shows in the modest execution — this is wartime improvisation printed by an institution whose core competency was maps, not intaglio currency work.
Designer Horațiu Sava Dumitru also contributed to other notes in this emergency series.