One ban

It is the lowest-denomination coin of the present currency and has been minted every year since the leu was redenominated in 2005.

As well as Romania, the coin has been minted in the United Kingdom (1867), Germany (1900) and Russia (1952).

The first one-ban coin was struck in 1867 by two different mints in Birmingham, England: Heaton and Watt & Co.

Although representing the Romanian capital Bucharest, the 20 million of these coins from 1900 were minted in Hamburg, Germany.

[2] No 1 ban coins were minted in any other years of the Kingdom of Romania due to inflation.

[3] The denomination returned in 1952 under communist rule, after a monetary reform on 28 January of that year.

[8] The one-ban coins were sold to large shops in rolls of fifty.