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1000 Lei
| Issuer | Banca Nationala a Romaniei |
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| Year | 1948 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait vignette of Tudor Vladimirescu at centre, set within an oval guilloche frame and flanked by elaborate floral and foliate underprint in salmon and teal. The bank title appears on a ribbon banner at top, with the denomination "UNA MIE LEI" on a dark panel at the foot of the note and the date "18 IUNIE 1948" below. Facsimile signatures of the Guvernator and Casier Central appear to the left and right of the central vignette respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI GUVERNATOR CASIER CENTRAL 1000 UNA MIE LEI 1000 18 IUNIE 1948 |
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This note belongs to the first emission series following Romania's Soviet-backed currency reform of August 1947, which abolished the old leu at a punishing conversion rate and wiped out much of the private savings that had survived the war. The 1948 issues were effectively instruments of the new People's Republic, issued under the authority of a central bank already being restructured along Soviet lines.
P#85 is among the scarcer denominations from this transitional period — the reform-era notes circulated briefly before another redenomination rendered them obsolete, limiting the window in which they saw meaningful use.