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100 lei
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Currency | Fourth leu (2005-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NAȚIONALĂ A ROMÂNIEI ION LUCA CARAGIALE 1852-1912 100 LEI UNA SUTĂ GUVERNATOR CASIER CENTRAL ALEXANDER FOLOSITI NUMAI IN SCOPURI EDUCATIONALE SI LA JOC PENTRU ÎNVĂȚARE ȘI JOC |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain white paper surface with no design, lettering, or security elements. |
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Romania's decision to continue printing polymer-format notes in paper for certain denominations in the mid-2000s is easily misread as a backward step — but the 2005 paper 100 lei was issued during the redenomination year, when the old 1,000,000 lei became the new 100 lei at a ratio of 10,000:1. The redenomination, effective 1 July 2005, was the culmination of a decade of post-communist inflation recovery.
Romania had actually pioneered polymer banknotes in 1999, so a paper issue at this denomination sits slightly outside the country's own trajectory. Verify whether this is a transitional printing before the denomination migrated fully to polymer substrate.