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500 Grawone
| Issuer | Grawe România Asigurare S.A. |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The right half carries an engraved vignette of Vila Anastasie Simu, a late 19th-century neoclassical villa framed by large trees, printed in green. The left field is filled with an intricate guilloche underprint in grey-violet, overlaid by the Graz city arms shield at lower left. Denomination numeral 500 appears in red at upper left and lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 500 CINCI SUTE GRAWONE 500 Grawe România Asigurare S.A. Vila Anastasie Simu, 2001 |
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Grawe România Asigurare is an Austrian-owned insurance company operating in Romania, a subsidiary of Grazer Wechselseitige Versicherung. This "500 Grawone" is not a banknote in any monetary sense — it is a promotional or novelty piece issued by the company, almost certainly for an internal event, anniversary campaign, or client incentive program in 2008. The denomination "Grawone" is a invented unit, a play on the company name.
The watermark is a genuine security feature, suggesting the piece was printed on purpose-made or specialist paper rather than standard commercial stock — an unusual level of investment for corporate ephemera.