Five hundred lei

Updated on Dec 17, 2024

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Value 500 Romanian leu Height 82 mm Years of printing since 2005		Width 153 mm Paper type polymer

Security features watermark, security thread, transparent window, microprinting, blacklight printing, micro perforations, latent writing, EURion constellation

The five hundred lei banknote is the highest of the circulating denomination of the Romanian leu. It is the same size as the 200 Euro banknote.

The main color of the banknote is gray. It pictures, on the obverse poet Mihai Eminescu, and on the reverse the University of Iaşi Library, and the front page of the Timpul newspaper.

History

In the past, the denomination was also in the coin form, as follows:

First leu (1867-1947)

banknote issues: 1877 (the hypothecary issue), 1916 (re-issues: 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920), 1924 (re-issue: 1925, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1938), 1934, 1936 (re-issues: 1939, 1940), 1940 (re-issues: 1941, 1942, 1943)

coin issues: 1941 (anniversary edition), 1944

banknote issue: 1944 (issued by the Red Army Comandament and circulated in 1944)

coin issues: 1945, 1946

Second leu (1947-1952)

banknote issues: 1947, 1949

Third leu - ROL (1952-2005)

banknote issues: 1991, 1992

coin issues: 1999 (re-issue: 2000), 2000 (anniversary edition)

Fourth leu - RON (since 2005)

banknote issue: 2005

References

Five hundred lei Wikipedia

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