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50 Lei COANDA-1910
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 2001 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a raised circular medallic portrait of Henri Coanda in high relief, depicting him as an elderly man in a draped suit, facing slightly left with a composed expression. The legend PIONIERI AI AVIATIEI ROMANE is inscribed across the upper portion of the octagonal field. The birth and death years 1886 and 1972 are positioned to the left and right respectively, flanking the central portrait medallion. Below the portrait, the name HENRI COANDA appears in bold lettering, accompanied by a facsimile of Coanda's engraved signature beneath it. |
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| Mintage | 2001 - Proof Set - 500 |
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This piece is one in a series of Romanian commemoratives honoring figures from the history of aviation and technology. Henri Coandă, the subject of the 1910 date referenced in the issue title, claimed late in his life to have built and flown a jet-powered aircraft in Paris in 1910 — decades before the acknowledged development of jet propulsion. The claim has never been substantiated by contemporary documentation, and most aviation historians treat it with considerable skepticism.
Romania nonetheless embraced Coandă as a national scientific hero, and the Banca Națională issued this coin firmly within that patriotic tradition rather than the historical one.