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.
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.