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1000 Romanian Leu

Romania pre_1900 unknown Needs review ✦ AI 70%

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Where & when

Country Romania

Currency Romanian Leu

Denomination 1000

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Era pre_1900

Legal status demonetized

Subjects & design

What's on the note

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Reverse subject Imperial Russian State Coat of Arms

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Color palette #d4c5a8,#8b9a8f,#c19a6b

Themes statesman,architecture

Language / script Latin,Cyrillic

Front: Romanian National Bank (Banca Națională a României) overprint on a Russian Imperial 1000-ruble note. The front shows the serial number 004A5019010 and architectural columns with decorative floral motifs. This represents Romanian occupation currency used during World War I when Romania occupied parts of Bessarabia and needed emergency currency; existing Russian Imperial notes were overprinted with Romanian authority markings.

Back: Imperial Russian State Coat of Arms (double-headed eagle with crown, orb, and sceptre) at left. The text reads 'State Credit Note / Twenty-Five Rubles' in Russian (Государственный кредитный билетъ / Двадцать пять рублей). Serial number ГМ 635322. The date '1909' appears in an ornamental oval at bottom right. The note includes the signatures of Manager Shipov and Cashier Baryshev, standard for Russian Imperial currency of this period.

Production

How it was made

Issuer State Bank of the Russian Empire

Issuer (native) Государственный банкъ

Printer Goznak (State Printing Works)

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Material paper

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Signatures: Manager: Shipov; Cashier: Baryshev

Security features: intaglio,microprint

Geography

Romania in Europe

Romania in Europe. Other countries on the same continent shown in muted grey.

The story

Background & history

CRITICAL MISMATCH: The front and back images appear to show DIFFERENT notes. The front shows a Romanian-overprinted 1000 lei note ("BANCA NATIONALA A ROMANIEI / UNA MIE lei 1000" with Romanian text and serial 004A5019010). The back shows a Russian Imperial 25-ruble note dated 1909 ("ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ" with Cyrillic text, imperial eagle, and serial ГМ 635322). These are not the obverse and reverse of the same banknote. The front represents Romanian occupation/emergency currency from WWI (likely 1916–1918 when Romania issued overprinted Russian notes in occupied territories). The back is a standard Tsarist-era 25-ruble State Credit Note from 1909, issued under Nicholas II. The Shipov-Baryshev signature combination on Russian notes is documented for 1909–1912. Without being able to examine a single coherent note, precise Pick numbers and catalogue details cannot be confidently assigned.

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Condition

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Serial number 004A5019010

Serial prefix 004A

Serial suffix 010

Some wear and fading evident on the note.

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AI extractions (3)

openai · gpt-4o 2026-05-10 07:05:58

status: ok · step 3 · $0.0230 · 6307↓ + 720↑ tokens

anthropic · claude-opus-4-5 2026-05-10 07:05:58

status: ok · step 2 · $0.1888 · 7269↓ + 1063↑ tokens

anthropic · claude-sonnet-4-5 2026-05-10 07:05:58

status: ok · step 1 · $0.0405 · 7269↓ + 1246↑ tokens

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