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10 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 2005-2007 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue and yellow on rose and multicolour underprint. Portrait vignette of painter Nicolae Grigorescu at right, with an artist's palette and a flower at centre. A transparent window at left displays only a white brushstroke security element, with the denomination numeral and bank monogram integrated into the guilloche underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI 10 10 GUVERNATOR CASIER CENTRAL LEI ZECE NICOLAE GRIGORESCU 1836-1907 (Translation: THE NATIONAL BANK OF ROMANIA 10 10 CENTRAL CASIER GOVERNOR LEI TEN NICOLAE GRIGORESCU 1836-1907) |
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Romania's switch to polymer banknotes in 1999 made it one of the first European countries to adopt the substrate nationally, initially prompted less by counterfeiting concerns than by the chronic wear problems that plagued paper notes in a still-cash-heavy economy. The 10 Lei denomination entered circulation following the July 2005 redenomination, which lopped four zeroes off the old leu — this note's face value was equivalent to 100,000 of the pre-reform lei.
Printed by Note Printing Australia under contract, the series was designed to integrate the transparent window into the compositional layout rather than treat it as a discrete security afterthought — a deliberate printer-side decision that distinguished it from earlier Romanian polymer issues.