Value 500 Romanian leu Height 82 mm Years of printing since 2005 | Width 153 mm Paper type polymer | |
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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)
Second leu (1947-1952)
Third leu - ROL (1952-2005)
Fourth leu - RON (since 2005)
References
Five hundred lei Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA