At the previous similar tender June 3, the ministry sold RON500 million in five-year paper at an average yield of 4.66% a year.
Banks offered roughly RON890 million at today’s tender, central bank data showed.
The ministry plans to sell state treasuries worth RON2.98 billion in June, down from the RON3.75 billion raised a month earlier.
So far in 2013, Romania sold RON26.2 billion in leu-denominated notes and EUR1.08 billion at two euro-denominated auctions on the local market. Additionally, the ministry tapped international markets for $1.5 billion at a US dollar-bond auction in February. (EUR1=RON4.5224)