Romania experienced a total solar eclipse on August 11, 1999 — one of the last of the millennium and widely visible across Europe. The National Bank issued both a circulating commemorative and this aluminium pattern to mark the event. Patterns of this type were produced in extremely limited numbers for internal review and are rarely encountered outside institutional collections.
Romania experienced a total solar eclipse on August 11, 1999 — one of the last of the millennium and widely visible across Europe. The National Bank issued both a circulating commemorative and this aluminium pattern to mark the event. Patterns of this type were produced in extremely limited numbers for internal review and are rarely encountered outside institutional collections.