Description:
Obverse
In the foreground, a group of four spectators; in the background, the partial image of an opera theatre hall; to the left, above, the coat of arms of Romania and the inscription in an arc “ROMANIA”; to the right, the face value – “10 LEI”; below, the year of issue “2010”.
Reverse
In the foreground, the portrait of soprano Hariclea Darclée; in the background, a sequence of four pitches at the beginning of Vissi d’arte aria in Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca; above, the inscription “HARICLEA DARCLEE“; below, the years “1860” and “1939” and to the right the soprano’s signature.
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