500 Lei 1880 Provisional Issue

€209,819.00
IssuerRomania
Year1880
TypeStandard circulation banknotes
Value500 Lei
CurrencyFirst leu (1867-1947)
CompositionPaper
Size210 × 140 mm
ShapeRectangular
Printer
No. printed
Designer(s)Designers: Alfred-Henri Bramtot, Georges Duval
Engraver(s)Paul Dujardin
In circulation to
Reference(s) P#12
Obverse descriptionWide architectural border with two peasant women and a child on the left and three peasant women and two childs on the right. Ornamental cartouche with date above, supported by children. Coat of arms and `ROMANIA` at the bottom centre.
Reverse descriptionArchitectural border with entablature supported by two caryatids (Justitia on the left and Abundentia - Fortuna on the right) on pedestals with the value in scroll cartridges. On the entablature, a cartridge decorated with scrolls with `ROMANIA`. The architrave is decorated to the left of the with a lion protome, and to the right with an aurochs protome. In the center, the legal text on a panel decorated on the sides with a linear composition of cordiform elements alternating with rais de coeur. In the center herma of Rome on a pedestal with a caduceus. To its left and right, two representations of the Capitoline Wolf.
Signature(s)
Protection typeWatermark
Protection descriptionLaureate head of emperor Trajan facing inwards. Laureate head of Dacian woman facing inwards.
Obverse letteringBANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI BILET HYPOTHECAR 12 JUNIU 1877. 500 500 CINCI SUTE LEI MINISTRU DE FINANCIE MEMBRII AI COMITETULUI BILETELOR HIPOTHECARE Casier cal al Tesaurului ROMANIA 500 500 A. BRAMTOT et G. DUVAL fec. P. DUJARDIN sc.
Reverse letteringROMANIA FALSIFICATORII ACESTOR BILETE CUM SI TOTI ACEIA CARI VOR FI CONTRIBUIT LA EMITEREA UNEI SUME MAI MARE DE BILETE DA CAT CELE PREVAZUTE PRIN LEDGEA DE FACIA, SE VOR PEDEPSI CONFORM ART. 112 SI URMATORUL DIN CODICELE PENAL 500 500 A. BRAMTOT et G. DUVAL fec. P. DUJARDIN sc.
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Catalog ID6749343220
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