Anghel Saligny engineered the Cernavodă Bridge over the Danube, completed in 1895 — at the time, the longest bridge in Europe and a genuine feat of late 19th-century structural engineering. Romania issued this coin in 2004 as part of a broader commemorative silver program honoring national technical and cultural figures, a series that ran through the early 2000s with relatively modest mintages aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation.
Anghel Saligny engineered the Cernavodă Bridge over the Danube, completed in 1895 — at the time, the longest bridge in Europe and a genuine feat of late 19th-century structural engineering. Romania issued this coin in 2004 as part of a broader commemorative silver program honoring national technical and cultural figures, a series that ran through the early 2000s with relatively modest mintages aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation.