

Romanian banknotes date to 1877, when Romania was just gaining a national identity once again after hundreds of years of Ottoman Turk rule. Beginning with WWI Romania redesigned many banknotes, this design dates to 1914, but was issued as late as 1938. The dominant agricultural economy of Romania is portrayed with the imagery of the farmer's wife with distaff, and a woman and child picking apples on the reverse. This note is P-19.