Currency Leu (ROL)
Facial value 3,00
Years of issue 1963 – 1966
Metal Steel-Nickel
Ø in mm 27
Art.-No. RO03.00P
Price EUR  70,00 (on order)

Oil refinery. It symbolizes the industry of the country under the socialist regime. Oil production in Romania is very old. In Ploiești, industrial oil production and a small refinery (the first in the world) were operational from 1857. Production was centered in the Plains of Pannonia. It peaked at 313,000 barrels/day in 1976 before decreasing to 79,000 barrels/day in 2016.