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50 Lei Cooperage
| Issuer | National Bank of Moldova |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Weight | 16.5 g |
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| Reverse description | The central field depicts a cooper at work crafting a wooden barrel, rendered in detailed relief illustrating the traditional craft of cooperage. The inscription 'BUTNĂRITUL' — the Romanian term for cooperage — arcs along the upper circumference in block Latin lettering, identifying the traditional trade celebrated by the issue. |
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| Mintage | 2008 - Proof - 500 |
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Issued as part of Moldova's ongoing series documenting traditional crafts, this piece commemorates cooperage — barrel-making — a trade with deep roots in the wine-producing regions of the country. Moldova's winemaking history stretches back millennia, and coopers supplied an essential industry that survived Soviet collectivization largely intact, if structurally transformed.
KM#45 was struck at the Lithuanian Mint in Vilnius, which has produced a significant portion of Moldova's commemorative silver output since the National Bank began issuing collector coins in the 1990s.