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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 946062, member: 15445&quot;]<span style="color: black"><font face="Arial">Romania</font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial"> borders with Hungary &amp; Serbia to the west.&nbsp; It borders Ukraine &amp; Moldavia to the north-east, and Bulgaria to the south (and just below that is Greece).&nbsp; Transylvania of Dracula’s fame is located in present day Romania.&nbsp; At the end of the World War I, Transylvania united with the Kingdom of Romania. After World War II, parts of Romania’s territories were occupied by the Soviet Union and Romania became a socialist republic.&nbsp; Today, Romania has joined the European Union and they will soon be using the Euro (in about 4 years I think).&nbsp; According to Wikipedia, Romania is now an upper-middle income country.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial"><img src="http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/collect89/Romania18815LeiCollage.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial">My new coin is a 5 Lei dated 1881.&nbsp; It is not a rare coin but I believe that it is quite rare to find an EF example that hasn&#039;t been harshly cleaned.&nbsp; The man on the obverse is King Carol I of Romania. He was a German prince that was elected prince (Domnitor) of Romania in 1866.&nbsp; He was proclaimed king in 1881, which is also the date on my coin.&nbsp; His full name was Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen&nbsp; He was born in Germany and died in Romania.&nbsp; Here is a link if you want to learn more about good king Carol I: <a href="http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/141249" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/141249" rel="nofollow">http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/141249</a></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial"><img src="http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/collect89/Romania_King_Carol_I.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial">The following information is hearsay from my trip to Romania earlier this year.&nbsp; I hope that some of our CT historians can add to this Romanian story and please POST YOUR COINS FROM ROMANIA.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial">I understand that Dracula was an iron fisted ruler that would provide gruesome punishment for anyone that committed a crime.&nbsp; I was told that in his day, you could leave a bag of gold coins on the sidewalk and it would still be there the next day because nobody would dare steal them. <img src="http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab269/collect89/RomaniaMuppetDracula.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial">The oldest modern human remains in Europe were discovered in Romania. The remains are more than 40,000 years old.&nbsp; My new Romanian coin is only 112 years old today.&nbsp; Post ‘em if you got ‘em. </font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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