Product Description
SCWPM.#111 - TBB.#B272aDate: 11-8-1999
Grade: Unc - Polymer issue.
Commemorative issue of the Total Solar Eclipse, 11 August 1999
Signature: Mugur Constantin Isărescu
Signature: Dan Florescu
Description:
Colour: Blue, red, yellow and purple.
Front: Reproduction of the Solar System at right depicting the eclipse, arms at upper left, transparent windows at upper left and lower right — view against black background to better see the transparent windows
Back: Map of Romania having the colors of the national flag (blue, yellow, and red). The map marks the main points where the solar eclipse was visible in a path moving along the map from west to east.
Size: 143 x 62 mm
Material: Polymer Plastic
General information:
In celebration of the total solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, the National Bank of Romania (BNR) decided to issue a commemorative two thousand Romanian lei banknote. Since it was the last eclipse of the millennium, the denomination was chosen to be 2000 in respect to the upcoming year.
The banknote was designed by Romanian artist Nicolae Siaftoiu, who is credited with the designs on which all Romanian banknotes printed since the 1989 Revolution are based.
