hello everyone,i am a college student of Shanghai,i started to collect the world coins when i was 12. I want to make more friends just like me .I hope we can talk about the coins inthe future.Here is a 5 Lei pattern of Romania dated 1922.It is a brass one.I bought it 4years ago.If u think it is a good coin,u can say something about it.Thanks for looking!

Interesting pattern coin - hopefully Banivechi might be able to help you out on that one

Now that is interesting indeed: One of the most beautiful German coins (IMO) also shows a woman kneeling in a similar position: http://www.muenzauktion.com/wagnermichael/...d_50pf1950d.jpg

It is somewhat similar to a Swiss pattern (nickel) dated 1931, see the attachment*. And now I see another piece which is almost a duplicate of the Swiss design, but older than that ...

Christian

(* not my picture - "borrowed" from jeggy who posted it to muenzen.net a few years ago)

As I know, these patterns were struck at Huguenin Freres, Le Locle-Switzerland. In Romania they are very rare (more often I saw patterns on ebay than at romanian coin shows, where the prices are 3-4 times higher than on ebay).
Here is another picture of a Cu-Ni pattern of 5 lei 1922 (from transylvanian-numismatics forum: http://transylvanian-numismatics.com/phpBB...c.php?pic_id=42

Beautiful designs.

in fact, my friend found it in a lot of coins,so it can not be UNC