Ștefan Cicio Pop

The Transylvanian Directory in 1918; Cicio Pop is seated, second from left. Cicio Pop's house in Arad, which served as headquarters for the Central Romanian National Council. Ștefan Cicio Pop (1 April 1865 – 16 February 1934) was a Romanian politician.

Biography Born in Sajgó, Belső-Szolnok County, Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire, Pop's maternal grandfather was the Greek-Catholic canon Vasile Pop, After attending high school in Szamosújvár (Gherla) and Nagyszeben (Sibiu), he went to the universities of Vienna and Budapest, obtaining a doctorate in law from the latter institution in 1891. On 2 December, Pop became vice president and head of the army and public safety department within the Directory Council, the temporary authority of Transylvania. He first won a term in the Romanian Assembly of Deputies in 1919. days after Vasile Goldiș. Among the participants at the funeral were Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu, Iuliu Maniu, Ion Mihalache, Sever Bocu, Alexandru Nicolescu and Nicolae Săveanu.

Tributes Numismatic On the occasion of the centenary of the Great Union, on 26 November 2018, the National Bank of Romania put into circulation, for the attention of the numismatists, a set of coins; on the obverse of each of the coins in the set are engraved a processing of a photo done by Samoilă Mârza, the texts (in a circle) ROMANIA and THE GREAT MEETING FROM ALBA IULIA, the nominal value, the coat of arms of Romania and the thousandths (the year of issue) 2018. On the reverse part of each coin is engraved the effigies of Stefan Cicio Pop, Gheorghe Pop de Băsești, Iuliu Maniu, Vasile Goldiș and Iuliu Hossu. Gold coins have a nominal value of 500 lei (200 copies), silver coins have a nominal value of 10 lei (200 copies), and those of common metal have a nominal value of 50 dollars (5,000 copies), all of proof quality. In the same set of coins, 1,000,000 medal coins of general UNC quality were issued.