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1000 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 1910-1931 |
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| Engraver(s) | Paul Dujardin |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio-printed note with allegorical female figures seated at far left and far right within elaborate guilloche borders: the left figure holds a sickle and the right rests with an oar, each set against fine cross-hatched vignette backgrounds. The bank title BANCA NAȚIONALĂ A ROMÂNIEI and denomination UNA MIIE LEI appear in bold letterpress at centre, flanked by numeral 1000 panels, with date and serial number printed above the signature block. Three manuscript signature lines for Vice-Guvernator, Director, and Casier Central occupy the lower centre, with the engravers' credits GEORGES DUVAL fecit and P. DUJARDIN SC. inscribed in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse centres on a large guilloche medallion bearing the denomination in numerals, flanked by two smaller circular guilloche rosettes in the upper corners and two ornamental roundels in the lower corners. An elaborate foliate and scrollwork frame encloses the central panel, with a rectangular blank cartouche positioned below the main medallion. The engravers' credits appear in the lower margin. |
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The plate for this note was engraved by Paul Dujardin and designed by Georges Duval at the Imprimerie Nationale in Paris — a relationship between the BNR and the French national press that predated WWI and survived it entirely intact. What that continuity obscures is the extraordinary political turbulence the successive signature combinations reflect: the 1915–1916 dates fall during Romania's tense neutrality period, while the 15.11.1917 issue date places that note squarely inside the Moldavian rump state, with Bucharest under German occupation and the bank operating from Iași.
Twenty-one distinct issue dates across two decades make P#23 one of the most signature-varied Romanian notes of the period. The 1931 dates — the last gasp of this design — coincide with the immediate aftermath of Romania's banking crisis triggered by the collapse of Banca Marmorosch Blank.