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Front: Nicolae Grigorescu (1838 to 1907), famous landscapes painter

Grigorescu displayed empathy with his fellow man and hence many of his works featured soldiers and rural workers.

Back: A country house adapted from Grigorescu's "Rodica"

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This note is not in my collection. Scans courtesy of Roberto Cacciamani

Front: Aurel Vlaicu (1882 to 1913), Engineer, inventor and Romania's foremost aviation pioneer

He was the winner of many international flying awards. Sadly he was to die in a plane crash searching for a way through the Carpathian Mountains.

Back: one of Vlaicu's planes, Vlaicu II

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This note is the world's highest denomination polymer plastic banknote.

Front: Ion Luca Caragiale (1852 to 1912), noted author, playwright and short story writer

Back: statue of Caragiale and now demolished national theatre formerly in Bucharest

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Front: Lucian Blaga (1895-1961), Romanian poet, playwright and philosopher

Blaga was born in Lancram, Romania into a family of priests. He received a degree in theology at Sibiu in 1917 and a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1920. In his life time, he had been a magazine editor, a Romanian diplomat and a college professor of cultural philosophy.

Back: Neolithic statue of the Thinker of Hamangia