Description:
Obverse
Military signallers in World War I installing telegraph, radio and telephone lines on a battlefield – reproduction after a metope on the Monument dedicated to the Heroes of the Combat Engineering Corps, known as “the Lion”, in Bucharest; the inscription “ROMANIA” in an arc; the coat of arms of Romania; the face value “5 LEI” and the year of issue “2013”.
Reverse
A war telegraph carriage – a replica of a drawing by Sava Henția (1877); a military signaller in World War I reproduced after the statue on the Monument dedicated to the Heroes of the Combat Engineering Corps, known as “Lion”, in Bucharest; the inscriptions “1873” and “140 DE ANI”; on the outer ring, the inscription “TELECOMUNICATII MILITARE” in an arc.
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