Gold, 31.10 g, In the upper part: Romania’s coat of arms; below: the face value of the coin 500 LEI, in the lower part: inside a garland of laurel, a reproduction of the painting entitled România Revolutionara (Revolutionary Romania) by Constantin Daniel Rosenthal / to the left, in the foreground, the effigy of Nicolae Balcescu taken from a painting by Gheorghe Tattarescu, to the right, in the background, partly covered by the effigy, a depiction of a group of 1848 revolutionaries from the aquarelle by Costache Petrescu and the years "1819†and "2009â€; inscribed in the outer ring are the legends "DREPTATE FRATIE UNITATE†(Justice, Brotherhood, Unity) in the upper part and "NICOLAE BALCESCU†in the lower part. PROOF!