• Source: Five hundred lei

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 Iași 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)

banknote issues: 1877 (the hypothecary issue), 1916 (re-issues: 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920), 1924 (re-issue: 1925, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1938), 1934, 1936 (re-issues: 1939, 1940), 1940 (re-issues: 1941, 1942, 1943)
coin issues: 1941 (anniversary edition), 1944
banknote issue: 1944 (issued by the Red Army Comandament and circulated in 1944)
coin issues: 1945, 1946
Second leu (1947-1952)

banknote issues: 1947, 1949
Third leu - ROL (1952-2005)

banknote issues: 1991, 1992
coin issues: 1999 (re-issue: 2000), 2000 (anniversary edition)
Fourth leu - RON (since 2005)

banknote issue: 2005




References



National Bank of Romania website Archived 2016-07-08 at the Wayback Machine

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