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50 Lei Alexandru Bernardazzi
| Issuer | National Bank of Moldova |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | A portrait bust of architect Alexandru Bernardazzi occupies the left portion of the field, rendered in relief facing right. To the right, a detailed depiction of the Saint Theodora of Sihla Church in Chișinău is shown. Along the upper circumference, the legend 'ALEXANDRU BERNARDAZZI' is inscribed in block lettering, accompanied by the architect's birth and death years '1831–1907'. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alexandru Bernardazzi was a Swiss-born architect who spent the bulk of his career in Odessa before relocating to Chișinău in 1878, where he designed a significant portion of the city's late-19th-century civic architecture. The National Bank of Moldova has issued commemorative silver pieces honoring figures whose contributions to Moldovan cultural heritage predate the republic's existence by over a century — Bernardazzi died in 1902, before Moldova as a political entity had any coherent form.