NEW RUMANIAN COINS.
SUPPLY BY BRITISH MINT.
The Royal Mint recently concluded a contract with the Rymanian Government for the coinage of .50.000,000 coins of 20-le: and 60,000,000 five-lei pieces. The piec.es will be struck in a new alloy which has' recently been experimented with at the mint and has proved satis-
factory. 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 allegoric?,l group representing the old Rumania embracing (he nowly-acquircd provinces of Greater Rumania, Thati* 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 Mint supervision. The coinage is to be de livered in consignments, the first of which will be made about Christmas time, and tho whole completed within six months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 29 November 1929, Page 9
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