Catalog
50 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Națională a Moldovei |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Size | 121 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA MOLDOVA ȘTEFAN CEL MARE BNM GUVERNATOR, D. Drăguţanu PE-UN PICIOR DE PLAI, PE-O GURĂ DE RAI... FALSIFICAREA ACESTOR BILETE SE PEDEPSEŞTE CONFORM LEGILOR |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Moldova's 50 Lei series has been issued across several dates since the early 1990s, with the Banque de France holding the printing contract throughout. That relationship is worth noting: France printing currency for a post-Soviet republic whose political alignment between East and West remained genuinely contested through this entire period.
The 2015 date corresponds to a phase of acute financial crisis in Moldova — the so-called "theft of the century," in which roughly $1 billion was siphoned from three Moldovan banks in 2014, destabilizing the leu and triggering IMF intervention. Dorin Drăguțanu was governor during that collapse and resigned in late 2015.