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Romania banknotes
Romania paper money catalog and Romanian currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Turkish currency, till 1880
  • Lei = 100 Bani, 1880-1947
  • Lei = (20.000 old Lei) = 100 Bani, 1947-1952
  • Lei = (400 old Lei) = 100 Bani, 1952-2005
  • Lei = (10.000 old Lei) = 100 Bani, from 2005

• For Moldova (Bessarabia) historical part of Romania see:
  • Moldova, from 1992
  • Transdniestria, from 1992

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Pick #	Date
		Kingdom
1-6	1877	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 lei
7-12	1880	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 lei; provisional overprint "Banca Nationala a Romanie"
13-15	design 1881	20(1881-95), 100(1881-1907), 1.000(1881-1906) lei
16	design 1896	20(1896-1908) lei
17-23	design 1909-16	1(1915-6), 2(1915), 5(1914-28), 20(1909-29), 100(1910-29), 500(1916-20), 1.000(1910-31) lei
24-25	design 1917	5(1917), 100(1917) lei
26-7	design 1920	1(1920), 2(1920) lei
28	design 1924	500(1924) lei
29-32	design 1925-29	5(1929), 20(1929), 100(1929), 500(1925-38) lei
33-35	design 1930-33	100(1930-32), 500(1931), 1.000(1933) lei
36-7	design 1934	500(1934), 1.000(1934) lei
38-47	design 1936-37	1(1937-8), 2(1937-40), 5(1938), 20(1939), 500(1936-40), 500(1936-40), 1.000(1936), 1.000(1936), 1.000(1938-40), 1.000(1938-40) lei
48	design 1940	5.000 lei; commemorative "Coronation of Kg.Mihai I"
49-51	design 1940	100(1940), 100(1940), 500(1940-43) lei
52-53	design 1941	1.000(1941-45), 2.000(1941-44) lei
54-56	design 1943-4	2.000(1943-45), 5.000(1943-44), 5.000(1944-45) lei
57-58	design 1945	10.000(1945-46), 100.000(1945-47) lei
59-61	1947	100.000, 1.000.000, 5.000.000 lei
62-64	1947.06.25	100, 500, 1.000 lei
65-66	1947.08.27	100, 1.000 lei
67-68	1947.12.05	100, 1.000 lei
69-71	1917	10, 25, 50 Bani
72-75	(1920)	10, 50, 200, 2.000 Lei; not issued
76-78	1945-7	20, 20, 100 lei
		Republic
79-80	design 1948	20, 20 lei
81-84	1950-52	1, 3, 5, 20 lei
85	1948	1.000 lei
86-87	1949-50	500, 1.000 lei
88-90	1952	10, 25, 100 lei
91-97	1966	1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 lei
98, 100A	1991	500, 1.000 lei
100-105	1992-4	200, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000 lei
106-110	1998	1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 50.000, 50.000, 100.000 lei
111	1999	2.000 lei; commemorative: "Solar Eclipse"
112-6	2000	10.000, 50.000, 100.000, 500.000, 1.000.000 lei
117-23	2005	1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 lei
124	2018	100 lei; commemorative "100 Anniversary of the Great Union"
125	2021	20 lei; commemorative "140 Anniversary of First Banknote issue by BNR 1881"

		WW1; German occupation
M1-8	(1917)	25, 50 Bani, 1, 2, 5, 20, 100, 1.000 lei
		WW2; Russian occupation
M10-16	1944	5, 10, 20, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 lei
		WW2; Romanian occupation of Soviet Union (Transdniestria, Ukraine)
M17-22	(1941)	1, 6, 24, 120, 600, 1.200 lei

		Provisional issue for Bukovina
R1-11	(1919)	10, 10, 20, 20, 20, 50, 50, 100, 100, 1.000, 10.000 kronen; validation stamp on Austrian side of Austro-Hungarian banknotes
		Provisional issue for Transylvania and Banat
R12-22	(1919)	10, 10, 20, 20, 20, 50, 50, 100, 100, 1.000, 10.000 kronen; validation stamp on Hungarian side of Austro-Hungarian banknotes