One leu

{{Infobox banknote | denomination = One leu | country = Romania | value = 1 | unit = Romanian leu | width_mm = 120 | height_mm = 62 | security_features = watermark, security thread, transparent window, microprinting, blacklight printing, EURion constellation | paper_type = polymer | years_of_printing = since 2005 | obverse = Romanian 1-Leu bill (front).jpg | obverse_design = prof. Nicolae Iorga, Milkweed gentian | obverse_designer = National Bank of Romania | obverse_design_date = 2005 | reverse = 1 leu. Romania, 2005 b.jpg | reverse_design = Curtea de Argeş Cathedral, the Wallachian eagle | reverse_designer = National Bank of Romania | reverse_design_date = 2005 }}

The current '''one leu''' banknote is the smallest circulating denomination af the Romanian leu. It is the same size as the 5 Euro banknote.

The main color of the current banknote is green. It pictures, on the obverse Prime-minister and historian Nicolae Iorga, and on the reverse the Curtea de Argeş Cathedral, which suffered a massive restoration under his Government, and a crossed eagle, the Wallachian traditional heraldic element.

== History == In the past, the denomination was also in the coin form, as follows:

'''First leu (1867-1947)''' * coin issues: 1870, 1873 (re-issues: 1874, 1876), 1881, 1884 (re-issue: 1885), 1894 (re-issues: 1900, 1901), 1906 (gold, celebration issue), 1910 (re-issues: 1911, 1912, 1914) * banknote issue: 1915 (re-issues: 1920, 1937, 1938), ''1917 (issued by the Romanian General Bank and circulated in the German occupation area between 1917-1918)'' * coin issue: 1924 * banknote re-issue: 1938 (re-issue of the 1915 design) * coin issue: 1938 (re-issues: 1939, 1940, 1941) * banknote issue: 1941 (issued by INFINEX and circulated in Romanian administrated Transnistria between 1941-1944)

'''Second leu (1947-1952)''' * coin issues: 1947, 1949 (re-issues: 1950, 1951)

'''Third leu - ROL(1952-2005)''' * banknote issue: 1952 * coin issue: 1963 * banknote issue: 1966 * coin issues: 1966 (actually minted in 1967, re-issue of the 1963 design), 1992, 1993 (re-issues: 1994, 1995, 1996)

'''Fourth leu - RON (since 2005)''' * banknote issue: 2005 (redesigned issue of the former 10.000 lei banknote, whereas 10.000 third lei = 1 fourth leu)

{{Multiple image | image1 = 1 leu 1920 avers.jpg | image2 = 1 leu 1920 revers.jpg | caption1 = Obverse | caption2 = Reverse | width1 = 150 | width2 = 150 | footer = 17 July 1920 1 leu issue | align = left }}

{{Multiple image | image1 = ROL 1 1952 obverse.jpg | image2 = ROL 1 1952 reverse.jpg | caption1 = Obverse | caption2 = Reverse | width1 = 150 | width2 = 150 | footer = 1952 1 leu issue | align = left }}

{{Multiple image | image1 = ROL 1 1966 obverse.jpg | image2 = ROL 1 1966 reverse.jpg | caption1 = Obverse | caption2 = Reverse | width1 = 150 | width2 = 150 | footer = 1966 1 leu issue | align = left }}

== References == [http://www.bnr.ro/Monede-si-bancnote-in-circulatie-724.aspx National Bank of Romania website] <references/>

Category:Banknotes of Romania Category:One-base-unit banknotes