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500 LEI - Biserica Ortodoxa Sanislau
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 Mai 2025 "Miluieste-mă Dumnezeule! Miluieste-mă!" Parohia Sanislau - Protopopiatul Ortodox Carei Hramul "Sf. Arhangheli Mihail si Gavriil" Biserica Ortodoxa Sanislau Preot paroh Man Petru Radu Designer Dani Crisan ANNO 1910 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is oriented vertically and retains the same red ornamental guilloche border with Orthodox crosses and grape-vine motifs. The upper portion carries the full text of Psalm 150 in Romanian, set in black lettering against a white field. Below, a large photographic vignette presents the richly painted interior of the church, showing the gilded iconostasis, central nave with wooden pews, crystal chandeliers, and frescoed barrel vault. A red-winged angel vignette is placed at the lower centre, with denomination numerals '500' repeated at the lower corners. |
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Romania's National Bank has issued commemorative polymer notes regularly since the 1990s, but this 2025 paper issue is unusual — polymer has been the standard for Romanian lei in recent decades, making a paper composition worth noting. Whether this reflects a deliberate collector-market decision or a specific constraint tied to the commemorative program is not documented in available sources.
Sanislău's Orthodox church, located in Satu Mare County near the Hungarian border, sits in a region with a complex confessional history shaped by successive Hungarian, Habsburg, and Romanian administrations. The designer credit to Dani Crișan places this within the BNR's ongoing domestic design program.