Banks offered RON1.95 billion, central bank data showed.

At the latest reopening of the bond on April 14, the ministry sold RON500 million in five-year paper at an average yield of 4.59%.

The ministry plans to sell state treasuries worth RON3.44 billion in May, down from RON4.31 billion raised a month earlier. The institution has to repay debt worth RON2.08 billion this month.

So far in 2014, Romania sold RON15.58 billion in leu-denominated notes and EUR678.7 million at three euro-denominated auctions on the local market.

The ministry also tapped international markets for $2 billion at a two-part U.S. dollar bond issue in January, and raised EUR1.25 billion in a ten-year Eurobond sale last month. (EUR1=RON4.4349)