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500 Lei COA with crown
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI 500 500 LEI 1 ianuarie 2018 GUVERNATOR CASIER CENTRAL 500 LEI CINCI SUTE CINCI SUTE LEI MIHAI EMINESCU 1850-1889 (Translation: NATIONAL BANK OF ROMANIA 500 1 January 2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL CASHIER 500 LEI FIVE HUNDRED FIVE HUNDRED LEI MIHAI EMINESCU 1850-1889) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI 500 500 TIMPUL FALSIFICAREA ACESTOR BILETE SE PEDEPSESTE CONFORM LEGILOR CINCI SUTE LEI 500 (Translation: NATIONAL BANK OF ROMANIA 500 500 FORGERY OF THESE BANKNOTES IS PUNISHABLE UNDER THE LAW FIVE HUNDRED LEI 500) |
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Romania's 500 Lei polymer series has been in continuous production since 2005, with the P#123 family accumulating suffix variants as the note underwent incremental security upgrades rather than full redesigns. The "c" suffix typically reflects changes to security thread specification or substrate supplier — neither publicly detailed by BNR — making precise attribution between variants difficult without side-by-side comparison under UV.
Polymer adoption by BNR predated most Western European central banks by over a decade, driven partly by the catastrophic counterfeiting problems that plagued the pre-denomination leu series in the late 1990s.