Friday, March 24, 2017

Bulgarian Bank Notes

            

Bulgarian Currency
The lev is the currency of Bulgaria. It is divided in 100 stotinki. In archaic Bulgarian the word "lev" meant "lion", a word which in the modern language became lăv.
Currency name
Bulgarian lev
Plural
levove, numeric: leva
Symbol
лв.
Subunit
stotinka
Users
Bulgaria
Central bank
Bulgarian National Bank
Founded
25 January 1879
Headquarters
Sofia

Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) headquarters in Sofia

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50  Bulgarian lev
Item Code:   137/BG-1
Year
1951  (Date of withdrawal: 31 March 1962)
Obverse
Portrait of Georgi Dimitrov (1882 - 1949). Coat of arms of Bulgaria depicting a rampant lion.
Reverse
Smiling female rose-picker wearing a national costume.
Size
156 x 80 mm
Watermark
Capital letters of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB in cyrillics) with hammer and sickle.
Printer
Goznak, Moscow, USSR.
Material
100% cotton
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