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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 946136, member: 39&quot;]Some neat pieces there. Unfortunately today&#039;s coins from Romania have very sober and not exactly creative designs. The applies to the circulation pieces; there are only four anyway (1 ban, 10-20-50 bani). The 1 leu and above are paper money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Romanian coins for collectors are often nicely designed but have extremely low mintages - 500 or 1000 maybe. Since you mentioned &quot;Dracula&quot;, well, last year they minted some collector coins featuring him. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.bnro.ro/files/numismatics/2009_09_16_av_tb_2009916648491.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.bnro.ro/files/numismatics/2009_09_16_rv_tc_2009916648491.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>These pieces (1 leu/tombac, 10 lei/silver, 500 lei/gold) were issued to commemorate the 550th anniversary of Bucharest&#039;s being first mentioned in writing. That was in 1459 and thus under his rule. See <a href="http://www.bnro.ro/Numismatica-726.aspx?arch=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bnro.ro/Numismatica-726.aspx?arch=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.bnro.ro/Numismatica-726.aspx?arch=1</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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