Banks offered RON633 million, central bank data showed.
At the previous similar tender January 20, the ministry sold RON714 million in five-year paper at an average yield of 4.15%.
The ministry plans to sell debt in local currency worth RON4.06 billion in February. Also this month, the institution hopes to raise at least EUR200 million at a five-year Eurobond sale on February 20.
So far in 2014, Romania sold RON6.24 billion in leu-denominated notes and EUR278.7 million at a euro-denominated auction on the local market. The ministry also tapped international markets for $2 billion at a two-part U.S. dollar bond issue in January. (EUR1=RON4.4905)