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50 Bani - Carol I
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Currency | First leu (1867-1947) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1881 V - - 1,000,000 |
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1881 was Romania's coronation year — Carol I formally became king in March, ending the country's status as a principality and establishing the Kingdom of Romania. This 50 Bani issue was part of the first coinage struck under royal authority, a deliberate assertion of the newly sovereign state's monetary independence from the Ottoman-era arrangements that had persisted through the preceding decades of Carol's reign as prince.
The series was struck at the Brussels mint, which handled much of Romania's silver coinage during this period before domestic minting capacity was established at Bucharest.