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50 Bani Mircea the Elder
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2011-2016 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Within a hatched inner circle, a partial view of Cozia Monastery occupies the central field, rendered in fine detail. The coat of arms of Romania appears in the upper portion, partially overlapping the hatched border. The face value '50 BANI' is inscribed along the lower arc of the design, while the legend 'ROMANIA' is positioned at the top. The year of issue appears within the field adjacent to the monastery depiction. |
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| Edge | Lettered: ROMANIA repeated twice, separated by a star |
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Mircea cel Bătrân ruled Wallachia from 1386 until his death in 1418, navigating the competing pressures of Ottoman expansion and Hungarian suzerainty with enough political dexterity to die in his own bed — a rare achievement for a Wallachian ruler of that period. His 1395 alliance with Sigismund of Hungary and participation in the Crusade of Nicopolis ended in defeat, yet Mircea retained his throne where most of his contemporaries did not.
This denomination was reintroduced following Romania's 2005 currency redenomination, in which 10,000 old lei became 1 new leu.