Catalog
500 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Națională a Moldovei |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At center-left, an intaglio portrait of Ștefan cel Mare faces three-quarters right, accompanied by the inscription ȘTEFAN CEL MARE; the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Moldova appears at upper left, with the bank title BANCA NAȚIONALĂ A MOLDOVEI and issuer name REPUBLICA MOLDOVA in letterpress above. The nominal value 500 is rendered in figures at left and right, with CINCI SUTE LEI in words, set against a multicolored guilloche underprint with three vertical decorative elements and a central rosette; the governor's facsimile signature, the NBM logo, the victory token V, a circular legend PE-UN PICIOR DE PLAI, PE-O GURA DE RAI..., and the year 2015 appear alongside the serial number, with the anti-counterfeiting warning FALSIFICAREA ACESTOR BILETE SE PEDEPSEȘTE CONFORM LEGILOR at lower margin. |
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| Protection description | A watermark portrait of Ștefan cel Mare, oriented toward the center of the note, together with the inscription BNM, is visible in the blank right-hand margin when held to light; a security thread is also embedded in the paper. |
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Moldova's 500 Lei was printed at Chamalières by the Banque de France's own production facility — a common arrangement for smaller central banks that lack domestic security printing capacity, and one that says little about French monetary involvement but everything about economies of scale in banknote procurement.
Pick 27 occupies the top of the Moldovan lei series by face value, making it the workhorse denomination for larger transactions in a country where average wages have historically kept high-denomination notes circulating hard rather than sitting in savings.