One leu

Updated on Dec 24, 2024

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Value 1 Romanian leu Height 62 mm Years of printing since 2005		Width 120 mm Paper type polymer

Security features watermark, security thread, transparent window, microprinting, blacklight printing, EURion constellation

The current one leu banknote is the smallest circulating denomination of the Romanian leu. It is the same size as the 5 Euro banknote.

The main color of the current banknote is green. It pictures, on the obverse Prime-minister and historian Nicolae Iorga, and on the reverse the Curtea de Argeş Cathedral, which suffered a massive restoration under his Government, and a crossed eagle, the Wallachian traditional heraldic element.

History

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

First leu (1867-1947)

coin issues: 1870, 1873 (re-issues: 1874, 1876), 1881, 1884 (re-issue: 1885), 1894 (re-issues: 1900, 1901), 1906 (gold, celebration issue), 1910 (re-issues: 1911, 1912, 1914)

banknote issue: 1915 (re-issues: 1920, 1937, 1938), 1917 (issued by the Romanian General Bank and circulated in the German occupation area between 1917-1918)

coin issue: 1924

banknote re-issue: 1938 (re-issue of the 1915 design)

coin issue: 1938 (re-issues: 1939, 1940, 1941)

banknote issue: 1941 (issued by INFINEX and circulated in Romanian administrated Transnistria between 1941-1944)

Second leu (1947-1952)

coin issues: 1947, 1949 (re-issues: 1950, 1951)

Third leu - ROL(1952-2005)

banknote issue: 1952

coin issue: 1963

banknote issue: 1966

coin issues: 1966 (actually minted in 1967, re-issue of the 1963 design), 1992, 1993 (re-issues: 1994, 1995, 1996)

Fourth leu - RON (since 2005)

banknote issue: 2005 (redesigned issue of the former 10.000 lei banknote, whereas 10.000 third lei = 1 fourth leu)

References

One leu Wikipedia

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