25.3 mm diameter, 7.65 g, steel plated with brass on the inner disk and plated with nickel on the outer ring, grained edge with the incused inscription ★ MOLDOVA (two times) face value 10 LEI, micro-engraved inscription BNM (National Bank of Moldavia) written three times on the vertical segment of digit 1, year 2019, above a rectagle made of vertical segments on which monogram R M (from Republic of Moldova) is written as a hidden image; the letters are visible by tilting the coin from left to right about the vertical axis; on the outer ring there are the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, in lowercase form, as a symbol of the transition of writing the national language (i.e. the Romanian language) from the Cyrillic script to the Latin script

in the center the image of the "Pasărea măiastră" (the Enchanted Bird) flying towards the Sun - the emblem of the "Our Language" holiday, as a symbol of the rebirth of national (i.e. Romanian) spirituality, above the coat of arms of the Republic of Moldova; on the outer ring inscription · 30 DE ANI DE LA ADOPTAREA LEGILOR DESPRE LIMBA DE STAT ȘI GRAFIA LATINĂ meaning 30 YEARS SINCE THE ADOPTION OF THE LAWS ON THE STATE LANGUAGE AND OF THE LATIN SCRIPT Issuing date: 16th of August 2019 Mintage: 250,000 coins

In 1989 in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (the predecessor of today's Republic of Moldova, at that time part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - USSR) the national revival movement was in full swing. On August 27th, 1989, a huge demonstration took place in Chișinău, organized by the Popular Front (Frontul Popular). The assembly demanded that the "Moldavian" language (that is, the Romanian language, a glotonym avoided that far in the USSR) be declared the state language, and the return to the use of the Latin alphabet. The Romanian patriots of the Moldavian S.S.R. risked a lot in the era through these acts of great courage - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dissolved only later, on December 26th, 1991. Under the pressure of the popular masses, the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian S.S.R. adopted, on August 31st, the law for the return of the "Moldavian" language to the Latin script. A day later, a law on the functioning of spoken languages ​​was also adopted, a law declaring the "Moldavian" (i.e. Romanian) language the state language and formally declaring its linguistic identity with the Romanian language.

It should not be forgotten that in the final document of the Great National Assembly of August 27th, 1989, entitled "On state sovereignty and our right to the future" (appeared in the August 31st, 1989 issue of the weekly magazine "Literatura și Arta" - "Literature and Art"), the necessity was stressed, in the space of Bessarabia, for the "restoration: of the historical name of our people, which it was borne throughout the ages - as evidenced by the chronicles and annals, by historical documents from the modern and contemporary period, as well as by the testimonies of the classics of Marxism-Leninism - the name of ROMANIAN - and its name - ROMANIAN LANGUAGE".

"Literature and Art" was the first publication that appeared in Chișinău with Latin letters after the Soviet occupation on June 28th, 1940. It was printed in a half clandestine manner in Lithuania, in Vilnius, given that there were no printing presses with Latin letters in the USSR except for The Baltic Countries, and direct relations with the Motherland (at the time the Socialist Republic of Romania) were almost non-existent.

In June 1990 the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian S.S.R. declared August 31st as a national holiday, under the name "Our Romanian language". In 1994, after a change of direction in the politics of the Republic of Moldova (which had adopted the name of the Republic of Moldova in May 1991 and proclaimed its independence on August 27th, 1991), the name of the holiday was shortened to "Our Language".

In 2013, Romanian Language Day was established in Romania, a national day that is also celebrated on August 31st.

Paradoxically, the design of the coin omitted precisely the letters specific to the Romanian language alphabet, both in Romania and in the Republic of Moldova, more precisely the letters with diacritical marks: â, ă, î, ș, ț.