The banknote features Ecaterina Teodoriu, a World War 1 war heroine who went from nurse to frontline soldier to platoon commander, a feat unheard of for a woman. And was often called the “Romanian Jean D’Arc”.
Ohhh, nice new 20 lei bill! I remember the old one being much less colorful.
Looks like Mao
If you hadn’t pointed it out, I wouldn’t have noticed it is a woman. She looks pretty androgynous.
It looks like former PM Victor Ponta.
Most Romanians would have wanted queen Mary to be on the bill. The National Bank did not explained the process behind choosing Ecaterina Teodoroiu.
I, for one, consider having Teodoroiu as the first historical female figure to be a missed opportunity. It screams of militarism and nationalism. A more fitting figure would have been someone who actually fought for women’s rights. I can think of Sofia Nădejde who publicly contradicted the main conservative thinker of the era, Titu Maiorescu, regarding the female brain. Maiorescu argued that because females have a smaller brain, they do not have the intellectual capacity of men and thus no political rights should be given to them. Or some suffragette from the interwar era. While not a very known movement, they achieved some success by winning the right to vote in local elections from 1926 onwards (only literate women could vote).
It’s nice to have her on a bill but the bill itself is pretty useless.
Kinda looks like Egon from Ghostbusters 😛
Nice one 🙂
She looks like a East Asian man.
Gee, breaking us in slowly. I look more like a woman.
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The banknote features Ecaterina Teodoriu, a World War 1 war heroine who went from nurse to frontline soldier to platoon commander, a feat unheard of for a woman. And was often called the “Romanian Jean D’Arc”.
The bill is worth about 4 euro.
More on wiki [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecaterina_Teodoroiu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecaterina_Teodoroiu)
Ohhh, nice new 20 lei bill! I remember the old one being much less colorful.
Looks like Mao
If you hadn’t pointed it out, I wouldn’t have noticed it is a woman. She looks pretty androgynous.
It looks like former PM Victor Ponta.
Most Romanians would have wanted queen Mary to be on the bill. The National Bank did not explained the process behind choosing Ecaterina Teodoroiu.
I, for one, consider having Teodoroiu as the first historical female figure to be a missed opportunity. It screams of militarism and nationalism. A more fitting figure would have been someone who actually fought for women’s rights. I can think of Sofia Nădejde who publicly contradicted the main conservative thinker of the era, Titu Maiorescu, regarding the female brain. Maiorescu argued that because females have a smaller brain, they do not have the intellectual capacity of men and thus no political rights should be given to them. Or some suffragette from the interwar era. While not a very known movement, they achieved some success by winning the right to vote in local elections from 1926 onwards (only literate women could vote).
It’s nice to have her on a bill but the bill itself is pretty useless.
Kinda looks like Egon from Ghostbusters 😛
Nice one 🙂
She looks like a East Asian man.
Gee, breaking us in slowly. I look more like a woman.
There were many women issued on banknotes before this one: [https://apps.voxmedia.com/graphics/vox-women-banknotes/](https://apps.voxmedia.com/graphics/vox-women-banknotes/) .
Polynesia is the best at putting women on bank notes
I didn’t know Stalin and ~~Ellen~~ Elliot Page had a love child.
I thought that was some asian guy
Was she of Greek origin?
my country started using animals, The old designs are still in circulation, but they are few since inflation made them useless
Very asian looking.
[*This*](https://i.imgur.com/0fqspRW.png) is supposed to be the inspiration
How is it the first? Serbia also has had a woman historical figure on a banknote before romania, its the 200 dinar note with Nadežda Petrović.
Even tho the gesture is nice the bill wil be very inconvenient to use
Thats just my educated Romanian guess