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500 LEI - Biserica Ortodoxa Sanislau
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Size | 153 × 82 mm |
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| Obverse description | Fantasy note with a red ornamental border incorporating Orthodox crosses, cherub vignettes at the corners, and a grape-vine guilloche pattern along all edges. The left field carries a smaller photographic vignette of the church exterior alongside the inscription 'Biserica Ortodoxă Sanislău', while the main central and right fields present a large colour photographic view of the Orthodox Church of Sanislau with its twin bell towers. A large ornate Orthodox cross underprint occupies the centre, and the denomination '500' appears in red at the upper right, with the founding year 'ANNO 1910' at the lower centre flanked by cherubs. |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 CINCI SUTE † Psalmul 150 † Lăudaţi pe Domnul întru sfinţii Lui; lăudaţi-L pe El întru tăria puterii Lui. Lăudaţi-L pe El întru puterile Lui; lăudaţi-L pe El după mulţimea slavei Lui. Lăudaţi-L pe El în glas de trâmbiţă; lăudaţi-L pe El în psaltire şi în alăută. Lăudaţi-L pe El în timpane şi în horă; lăudaţi-L pe El în strune şi organe. Lăudaţi-L pe El în chimvale bine răsunătoare; lăudaţi-L pe El în chimvale de strigare. Toată suflarea să laude pe Domnul! CINCI SUTE 500 |
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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.