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100 Lei BGR - German Occupation
| Issuer | Banca Generala Romana (Romanian General Bank) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Reference(s) | P#M7 |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on an olive and grey guilloche underprint, with large numeral "100" medallions in oval cartouches at left and right. The central panel carries the issuing authority text and two manuscript signatures below "Sectie de emisie:", with a red serial number printed at the bottom centre. The entire field is framed by an intricate geometric and foliate border. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse in blue, gold and olive tones, with two symmetrical oval vignettes each containing a female portrait bust in three-quarter view, one at left and one at right. The central area bears the large bold inscription "BANCA GENERALA ROMANA" above the numeral "100" set within an elaborate guilloche rosette. Anti-counterfeiting warning text appears in two columns flanking the central vignette, and the denomination "UNA SUTA LEI" is repeated along the upper and lower borders. |
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The Banca Generală Română was not a Romanian institution in any meaningful sense — it was established by German occupying authorities in Bucharest in December 1916, weeks after the fall of the capital, specifically to control the financial system of occupied Wallachia and Moldavia. Notes issued under its name were occupation currency imposed on a population whose own National Bank had evacuated to Iași with the retreating government.
The printed date of 30 April 1917 places this note squarely within the height of German occupation, before the armistice Romania signed with the Central Powers in early 1918.