Romania's central bank has denied anti-Semitism after minting a coin depicting the prime minister who stripped Jews of their citizenship in 1939.
Miron Cristea is one of five Romanian Orthodox Church patriarchs the bank has honoured with a silver-minted coin.
But after a complaint from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the bank's governor has agreed to review the coin.
"We did not wish to send a racist, xenophobic or anti-Semitic message," said Mugur Isarescu.
"We respect the values of the nation and democracy," he added.
'Demonised Jews'Mr Cristea led Romania's Orthodox Church between 1925 and 1939, and was the country's prime minister from 1938-39.
As prime minister, he amended the citizenship law, thereby stripping 225,000 Jews (37% of the country's Jewish population) of their Romanian citizenship.
In a study published in 2004, an international commission of historians said that Mr Cristea had "demonised the Jews" and had called for their deportation.
Some 300,000 Jews and gypsies were killed in Romania during the Holocaust. BBC News
