Fifty lei

Fifty lei

Country	Romania
Value	50 Romanian leu
Width	140 mm
Height	77 mm
Security features	watermark, security thread, transparent window, microprinting, blacklight printing, micro perforations, latent writing, EURion constellation
Material used	polymer
Years of printing	since 2005
Obverse
Design	Aurel Vlaicu, Edelweiss, a two-blade propeller
Designer	National Bank of Romania
Design date	2005
Reverse
Design	Vlaicu II airplane design, the head of an eagle, a sketch of an airplane motor.
Designer	National Bank of Romania
Design date	2005

The fifty-lei banknote is one of the circulating denomination of the Romanian leu. It is the same size as the 50 Euro banknote.

The main color of the banknote is yellow. It pictures, on the obverse, pilot and engineer Aurel Vlaicu, and on the reverse the A Vlaicu Nr. II airplane design, the head of an eagle, and the sketch of the Gnome motor of his airplane.

History

In earlier times, the denomination was also in the coin form, as follows:

First leu (1867–1947)

• banknote issue: 1877 (the hypothecary issue)
• coin issues: 1906 (gold, celebration issue), 1937 (re-issue: 1938)

Second leu (1947–1952)

• no issues

Third leu – ROL (1952–2005)

• banknote issue: 1966
• coin issue: 1991 (re-issues: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996)

Fourth leu – RON (since 2005)

• banknote issue: 2005 (redesigned issue of the former 500.000 lei banknote, whereas 500.000 third lei = 50 fourth lei)

Obverse

Reverse

1966 50 lei issue

References

• Money portal

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