Catalog
50 Lei Mitropolitul Dosoftei
| Issuer | National Bank of Moldova |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Weight | 16.5 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | MITROPOLITUL DOSOFTEI 1624-1693 |
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Dosoftei, Metropolitan of Moldavia from 1671 to 1686, is credited with producing the first printed book in the Romanian language — a versified psalter published in Iași in 1673. He was forced into exile in Poland following the Ottoman-backed deposal of Moldavian prince Constantin Cantemir, and died in Żółkiew in 1693, never returning to Moldavia. The commemorative program of which this coin is part reflects Moldova's post-Soviet effort to anchor national identity in pre-Phanariot Orthodox and literary heritage rather than in the more contested Russophone or Romanian nationalist frameworks.