Banks offered RON1.75 billion, central bank data showed.
At the latest similar auction December 10, the ministry sold a planned RON500 million of one-year paper, at an average yield of 6.33% a year.
The ministry has already exceeded its issuance target for December, of RON3.1 billion. It sold paper worth RON4.65 billion in seven auctions and estimates it will raise another RON300 million at a three-year bond tender on December 20.
So far in 2012, Romania sold on the local market RON54.76 billion in leu-denominated state notes and EUR763.3 million from tapping two existing foreign currency bonds, due 2014 and 2015, respectively.
Additionally, the country tapped international debt markets for $2.25 billion at two US dollar-denominated bond sales and raised another EUR2.25 billion via two Eurobonds. (EUR1=RON4.4675)