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5 Romani Pattern
| Issuer | United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Value | 5 Romani |
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| Obverse lettering | ALEXANDRU JOAN D. MOLD. SI WALACH. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 1860 pattern coinage of the United Principalities was struck in Paris at a moment of acute political uncertainty — Alexandru Ioan Cuza had united the two principalities under his rule only the year before, and the Romanian monetary system had yet to be formally established. These patterns were exploratory proposals for a national coinage that never materialized under Cuza's government, the principalities remaining dependent on a chaotic mixture of Ottoman, Austrian, and Russian coins in daily commerce.
The "Romani" denomination itself was abandoned before any circulation issue was authorized.