500 Lei

Clément Serveau was a prolific French designer who worked extensively for the Imprimerie de la Banque de France, and this note bears his characteristic compositional style — though it was produced for Romania rather than France, a common arrangement in the interwar period when Romanian banknote production relied heavily on French printing infrastructure. Marguerite Dreyfus, who signed her engraving work as "Rita," was one of the few women engravers active in European intaglio banknote work during this era.

The series ran across thirteen years, an unusually long lifespan that reflects the relative monetary stability Romania managed through much of the interwar period before the pressures of the late 1930s.