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500 Lei 200 years since the birth of Alexandru Ioan Cuza
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Composition | Gold (.999) |
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| Obverse lettering | ROMANIA 500 LEI 2020 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza was elected ruler of both Moldavia and Wallachia in January 1859 — two separate votes, two nominally distinct thrones — effectively unifying the Romanian principalities through a constitutional loophole the Great Powers had not anticipated and could not easily reverse. The act forced diplomatic recognition of a de facto unified Romanian state years before formal independence from Ottoman suzerainty was achieved in 1877.
Cuza was deposed in 1866 by a coalition of political opponents who smuggled themselves into his bedroom at three in the morning and forced his abdication at gunpoint.