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5000 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Nationala a Romaniei |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 5000 Lei (5000 ROL) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI 5000 GUVERNATOR CASIER CENTRAL 5000 cinci mii lei AVRAM IANCU 1824-1872 CINCI MII LEI CINCI MII LEI CINCI MII LEI CINCI MII LEI (Translation: National Bank of Romania Governor Central Cashier Five Thousand Lei) |
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| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Avram Iancu, visible when held to light |
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Romania's inflation in the early 1990s was severe enough that the 5,000 Lei denomination, which would have been an extraordinary sum under Ceaușescu, had become a routine transaction note within a few years of his fall. The National Bank issued this series in rapid succession simply to keep pace with purchasing power collapse — by the mid-1990s, denominations of 50,000 and 100,000 Lei would follow.
P#104 is frequently found with handling wear concentrated along the lower horizontal fold, a consequence of how it was typically stored and tendered during its short active circulation window.