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5000 Lei
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2001-2006 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by the large bold numeral '5000' rendered in a decorative typeface and occupying the central field, with the denomination legend 'LEI' inscribed beneath in capitals. The country name 'ROMANIA' arches along the upper periphery in prominent raised letters, closely following the dodecagonal contour of the coin. The overall design is clean and uncluttered, with the denomination serving as the principal graphic element against a plain field. |
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Romania's aluminium-magnesium coinage of this period was a direct consequence of chronic inflation that had eroded the leu's purchasing power so severely that lower denominations had become functionally worthless. The 5000 Lei coin was among the highest-denomination circulating pieces issued before the 2005 redenomination, which replaced 10,000 old lei with a single new leu — effectively acknowledging that two decades of post-communist monetary policy had collapsed the currency by a factor of ten thousand.