28 mm diameter, 13 g, 99.9% silver, grained edge year 2010, circular inscription REPUBLICA MOLDOVA meaning "REPUBLIC OF MOLDAVIA" and the coat of arms of the Republic of Moldavia, in exergue horizontal line and denomination "50 LEI"	overimposed effigies of Doina and Ion Aldea-Teodorovici, circular inscription "DOINA ŞI ION ALDEA-TEODOROVICI DOUĂ INIMI GEMENE" meaning "DOINA AND ION ALDEA-TEODOROVICI TWO TWIN HEARTS" Issuing date: 3rd of August 2010 Mintage: 500 coins
28 mm diameter, 15.5 g, 99.9% gold, grained edge year 2010, circular inscription REPUBLICA MOLDOVA meaning "REPUBLIC OF MOLDAVIA" and the coat of arms of the Republic of Moldavia, in exergue horizontal line and denomination "100 LEI"	overimposed effigies of Doina and Ion Aldea-Teodorovici, circular inscription "DOINA ŞI ION ALDEA-TEODOROVICI DOUĂ INIMI GEMENE" meaning "DOINA AND ION ALDEA-TEODOROVICI TWO TWIN HEARTS" Issuing date: 3rd of August 2010 Mintage: 300 coins

These two coins belong to the series Personalities.

About Doina and Ion Aldea-Teodorovici

Ion Aldea-Teodorovici is born in 1954 at Leova. He studied music, having become a composer and interpreter. In 1981 he married Doina Marin from Chişinău, graduate of philology, with whom he formed an immortal duo. The two artists died on October 30th 1992, in a terrible freak accident that occured not very far from Bucharest and that was not fully clarified up to this day. In order to honour the memory of couple Doina and Ion Aldea-Teodorovici, in Chişinău the annual International Music Festival-Contest "Two Twin Hearts" has been organized. The name of the festival (and of the the coins) seems to be a hint to the melody sung by the two: Two Twin Tears, with the refrain "Two twin tears, two twin tears/ Chişinau and Bucharest/ Alike joys, alike joys/ On sweet Romanian settings".

Couple Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici played an important role in the movement for national awakening in the Moldavia between Prut and Nistru in the ending years of communism and immediately after its fall. Through their songs they fought for Romanian writing with Latin characters, for the Romanian language, for liberty and for union. Worthy mentioning are songs Răsai (Rise), Eminescu, Limba română (Romanian Language), Pentru Ea (For It) , Maluri de Prut (Prut Banks), Trei culori (Three Colors), Două lacrimi gemene (Two Twin Tears) - almost all on lyrics written by Moldavian poet Grigore Vieru. In 1991 they sang at the Great National Gathering that proclaimed the Independence for the Republic of Moldova, and in 1992, on the frontline - to the volunteers that fought for the independence and the territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova in the war at Nistru against Transnistrian communist separatists.