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5000 Lei Ion Luca Caragiale
| Issuer | National Bank of Romania |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Weight | 31.103 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ROMANIA 5000 LEI 2002 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of Ion Luca Caragiale's birth, this commemorative was produced in extremely limited numbers — Romania's gold commemorative program of the early 2000s rarely exceeded a few hundred pieces per issue. Caragiale, born in 1852, remains the defining figure of Romanian dramatic literature, his satirical plays dissecting the corruption and absurdity of Romanian political life with a sharpness that earned him as many enemies as admirers during his lifetime.
He spent his final years in self-imposed exile in Berlin, embittered by plagiarism accusations leveled against him in Bucharest in 1901.