Ordinance on overprinting the circulating paper money of the Austro-Hungarian Bank in Bucovina and Transylvania; effective immediately: - Implemented 16.06. - 15.07.1919 (Bucovina) and 16.06. - 20.07.1919 Transylvania).
12.08.1920
Ordinance on the demonetization of all foreign currencies in the newly acquired territory; effective ??.??.1920: - Bucovina and Transylvania: exchange rate: 1 Romanian Leu = 2 Austro-Hungarian Crowns (overprinted) - Bessarabia: exchange rate: 1 Romanian Leu = 1 "Romanov" Ruble (08.10.1920: 1.35 "Romanov"-Rubles) = 0.3 "Lemberg" Ruble; per person a maximum amount of 5'000 Rubles was converted, exceeding cash amounts were invalidated.
??.07.1941
Issuance of paper money in Romanian currency for occupied Bessarabia and Transnistria in the name of the state-owned "Institute for External Funding (Institutul de Finanțare Externa, INFINEX)": - Unclear if Soviet currency was exchanged, the cross-rate would have been 6 Romanian Lei = 1 Soviet Ruble.
??.02.1944
Re-conquest of Transnistria and Bessarabia (and subsequent occupation of Romania) by the Red Army: - Unclear if Romanian currency was exchanged in Transnistria and Bessarabia, during the occupation of Romania a rate of 100 Romanian Lei = 1 Soviet Ruble was applied.
Time Period: 1992-1993
Currency: Moldovan Coupon (Moldovan Ruble)
Transition
1 : 1 Russian Ruble (1992)
Sub-units
none
ISO4217
none (informal: MDC)
Timeline
11.06.1991
Law [No. 599-XII] on the establishment of the Moldovan National Bank and creation of the Moldovan Leu as national currency; effective 24.07.1991 upon constitution of the bank, the currency was not introduced at this time
02.06.1992
Government resolution [No. HG371] on the issuance of multiple-use coupons for circulation in parallel and at par with Soviet and Russian currency; effective 10.06.1992
09.08.1993
Demonetization of the Soviet and Russian currency, the Coupon becomes sole legal tender
Valuation Regimes
1992-1993
Fixed rate against Russian Ruble (1992); possibly a variable rate after 09.08.1993
Rate Arrangements
10.06.1992
Fixed
Russian Ruble (1992) at 1 : 1
±0.0%
09.08.1993
Fixed
Russian Ruble (1992) at 1 : 1.30 (?)
-23.1%
Time Period: 1993-
Currency: Moldovan Leu
Transition
1 : 1'000
Sub-units
Leu / 100 Bani
ISO4217
MDL
Timeline
15.12.1992
Law [No. 1232-XII] on the introduction of the Leu as national currency; effective 29.11.1993
29.11.1993
Start of currency exchange: - 29.11.1993: Start of issuance of the new banknotes and coins - 02.12.1993: Demonetization of the provisional currency.