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50 Lei 1880 Provisional Issue
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 1880 |
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| Size | 184 × 126 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | ROMANIA 50 50 50 FALSIFICATORII ACESTOR BILETE CUM SI TOTI ACEIA CARI VOR FI CONTRIBUIT LA EMITEREA UNEI SUME MAI MARE DE BILETE DA CAT CELE PREVAZUTE PRIN LEDGEA DE FACIA, SE VOR PEDEPSI CONFORM ART. 112 SI URMATORUL DIN CODICELE PENAL A. BRAMTOT et G. DUVAL fec. P. DUJARDIN sc. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Romania's 1880 50 Lei series had a production life no one anticipated. The original notes were printed in France in the early 1880s, but wartime disruptions and chronic paper shortages pushed the Banca Națională into one of the more unusual decisions in Romanian monetary history: authorizing continued issue of these same plates into 1945, making this a genuine six-decade span between original design and final release date. The "Provisional Issue" designation acknowledges that anomaly directly.
Bramtot and Duval's design was executed through Dujardin's engraving at a moment when French bank note craft was at a high point commercially. That the plates survived long enough to still be usable — and necessary — in the last months of World War II says something bleak about Romanian wartime finance.