RUMANIAN COINS
SUPPLY BY BRITISH MINT. The Royal Mint recently concluded a contract with the Rumanian Government for the coinage of 50,0()0,000 coins of 20-lei and 60,000,000 five-lei pieces. The pieces will be struck in a new alloy which has recently been experimented with at the mint and has proved, satisfactory. The obverse of both these pieces will show the head of the young King of Rumania. The reverse of the 20-lei piece, will show an allegorical group representing the old Rumania embracing the newly-acquired provinces of Greater. Rumania. That of the five-lei piece will show the arms of the new Rumania.
A proportion of the pieces will be struck at Birmingham under Royal Miijt supervision. The coinage is to be delivered in consignments, the first of which will be made about Christmas time, and the whole' completed within six months.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 December 1929, Page 8
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