THE PATRON SAINT OF BULGARIA

This is the 1 Lev Note from 1999. As you can see, Bulgaria uses the Cyrillic script which makes identifying it that bit more interesting . it pictures St John of Rila, The patron saint of Bulgaria, who was, by all accounts the Bulgarian version of St Francis of Assisi, and was revered as a saint in his own lifetime, The reverse has the Monastery of Rila.

More Bulgarian notes HERE and HERE

 

RILA MONASTERY

BULGARIA 2

Here's some more Bulgarian notes, some of which we've seen before - the 3 Leva note, but the top one is the 200 leva note with Gorgi Dimitrov , who was a communist politician on the front and ladies picking tobacco on the reverse - who knew bulgaria grew tobacco ??

The other one we haven't seen before is the 5 Leva note with hands holding the Hammer and sickle on the reverse. all 3 notes are from 1951.

you can see the other Bulgarian notes HERE

BULGARIA

The Republic of Bulgaria is a Balkan country on the black sea. Its Capital city is Sofia .It was a former soviet bloc country and left in 1990. It hss now joined Nato (2004) and is a member of the European Union (since 2007).the monetary notes are in LEV and 1 lev = 100 Stotinki.

Above are two notes from 1951 the first is a 50 Leva with a peasant landy on the reverse and G Dimitrov (georgi ??) on the front. the other is a 3 leva, the front has a coat of arms to the left and the reverse has hands holding a hammer and sickle.

This one is a 2 leva note from 1962 with the reverse having a picture of a woman picking grapes in a vineyard (not shown)

This part set is from 1974, showing the 1, 5 and 10 Leva notes, the 2 and 20 Leva noes would make the full set .

and finally, from 1991, after leaving the soviet bloc, the hammer and sickle is gone, replaced with the duchess of Bulgaria and the reverse has an image of Boyana church