Pursuant to the provisions of Law No. 312/2004 on the Statute of the National Bank of Romania, as of 15 April 2016, the National Bank of Romania will put into circulation, for numismatic purposes, a set of three coins (made of gold, silver and copper-plated tombac) dedicated to the Governors of the National Bank of Romania – Ion I. Câmpineanu, Mihail Manoilescu and Ion I. Lapedatu..
The coins (made of gold, silver and copper-plated tombac) in the set have the following technical characteristics:
| Face value |
100 lei |
10 lei |
1 leu |
| Metal |
gold |
silver |
copper-plated tombac |
| Fineness |
900‰ |
999‰ |
- |
| Shape |
round |
round |
round |
| Diameter |
21 mm |
37 mm |
37 mm |
| Weight |
6,452 g |
31,103 g |
23,5 g |
| Quality |
proof |
proof |
proof |
| Edge |
milled |
milled |
milled |
Obverse of the gold coin: a vintage image of the Governor’s Office in the NBR Palace, the inscription “ROMANIA” in an arc, the face value “100 LEI”, Romania’s coat of arms and the year of issue “2016”.
Obverse of the silver coin: a vintage image of the Governor’s Office in the NBR Palace, the inscription “ROMANIA” in an arc, the face value “10 LEI”, Romania’s coat of arms and the year of issue “2016”.
Obverse of the copper-plated tombac coin: a vintage image of the Governor’s Office in the NBR Palace, the inscription “ROMANIA” in an arc, the face value “1 LEU”, Romania’s coat of arms and the year of issue “2016”.
Reverse (common to all coins made of gold, silver and copper-plated tombac in the set): the arc inscriptions “GUVERNATORI AI BANCII NATIONALE A ROMANIEI“ and “I.CAMPINEANU-M.MANOILESCU-I.LAPEDATU”, the portraits of the three governors of the National Bank of Romania.
The gold, silver and copper-plated tombac coins are individually housed in transparent plastic capsules.
The sets of three coins are accompanied by leaflets featuring a presentation of the numismatic issue in Romanian, English and French. Each leaflet comes with a certificate of authenticity bearing the signatures of the Governor and the Chief Cashier of the National Bank of Romania.
The mintage of this numismatic issue is 150 sets of coins (made of gold, silver and copper-plated tombac).
The selling price is lei 1,920.00, VAT excluded, per set of three coins, including the leaflet.
The gold, silver and copper-plated tombac coins dedicated to the Governors of the National Bank of Romania – Ion I. Câmpineanu, Mihail Manoilescu and Ion I. Lapedatu are legal tender on the territory of Romania.
The sets of coins dedicated to the Governors of the National Bank of Romania – Ion I. Câmpineanu, Mihail Manoilescu and Ion I. Lapedatu will be put into circulation, for numismatic purposes, through the branches of the National Bank of Romania in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iaşi and Timişoara.