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1000 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Națională a României |
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| Year | 1947 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI GUVERNATOR CASIER CENTRAL 1000 UNA MIE LEI 1000 5 DECEMVRIE 1947 |
| Reverse description | The Romanian state arms — a crowned eagle displayed with shield — occupies the central vignette, flanked by elaborate symmetrical arrangements of fruit, grain, and floral garlands rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The bank title BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI arches across the top within a decorative ribbon, with the value numeral 1000 at each upper corner and UNA MIE LEI repeated in two panels at the base. A block of anti-counterfeiting legal text in Romanian is set within the lower central area. |
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This note was issued in the final, chaotic months of the Romanian monarchy. By late 1947, hyperinflation had already consumed earlier denominations — Romania had run through multiple stabilization attempts since the wartime occupation-era monetary expansion. The 1000 Lei note from this period circulated only briefly before the communist-backed government abolished the monarchy in December 1947 and launched yet another currency reform in August 1947, which itself dramatically reduced the note's purchasing power almost immediately upon issue.
Pick 68 belongs to a series printed under severe economic duress, and surviving examples in any condition are not especially common given the short effective circulation window and the low-value redemption terms that discouraged careful preservation.