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1 Leu COA with crown
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 2019-2024 |
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| Value | 1 Leu |
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| Obverse description | At left center, an intaglio portrait vignette of historian Nicolae Iorga (1871–1940) is set against a multicolored guilloche underprint. To the right, a Gentian flower (Gentiana asclepiadaea) is rendered in fine detail alongside the Coat of Arms of Romania. The face carries the bank title, BNR logo, denomination in both numerals and words, the issue date of 1 January 2018, and the facsimile signatures of the Governor and Chief Cashier. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Romania's polymer 1 Leu series began in 2005, making it one of the earlier European adoptions of Guardian substrate outside Australia and the UK. The crown watermark on a polymer note is something of a technical oddity — traditional watermarks are a paper technology, achieved through wire mesh during pulp formation, and cannot be replicated on polymer by the same method. What appears as a watermark here is actually a clear window or voided area engineered into the substrate during manufacture, mimicking the visual effect rather than replicating the process.
The P#117l suffix places this among the later date variants, issued when the 1 Leu retained token rather than transactional value in everyday commerce.