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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