5000 Lei Ion Luca Caragiale

Reverse

Portrait of the playwright Ion Luca Caragiale; the years of birth "1852" and death "1912" are inscribed on the left and right sides of the portrait; the inscription "150 ANI DE LA NASTEREA LUI ION LUCA CARAGIALE" is engraved circularly.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1852
1912
150 ANI DE LA NASTEREA LUI ION LUCA CARAGIALE

Edge

Plain

Comment

Ion Luca Caragiale (commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale; February 13 [O.S. February 1] 1852[1] – 9 July 1912) was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and literature, as well as one of its most important writers and a leading representative of local humor. Alongside Mihai Eminescu, Ioan Slavici and Ion Creangă, he is seen as one of the main representatives of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he nonetheless parted during the second half of his life. His work, spanning four decades, covers the ground between Neoclassicism, Realism, and Naturalism, building on an original synthesis of foreign and local influences.

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Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
2002	250	-	-	-	-	-	-

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