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50 Lei Alecu Russo
| Issuer | National Bank of Moldova |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Weight | 13 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alecu Russo was a 19th-century Moldovan writer and revolutionary whose 1840 arrest and exile to a monastery by the Moldavian authorities came directly after authorities linked him to a banned theatrical performance of a politically charged play. His essay Studie Moldovană and his passionate advocacy for Romanian linguistic unity made him a recurring irritant to both Ottoman-tributary Moldavian authorities and later Romanian establishment figures who found his romanticism too radical.
The National Bank of Moldova has issued a consistent series of commemorative silvers honoring cultural figures tied to Moldovan national identity — a program with particular political weight given ongoing tensions over the shared Romanian-Moldovan heritage.