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10 Leva Srebro
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 1899 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Десетъ Лева Българска Народна Банка Въ замѣна на тая банкнота Българската Народна Банка плаща предявителю десетъ лева сребро (Translation: Ten Leva Bulgarian National Bank In exchange of this banknote the The Bulgarian National Bank pays the bearer ten leva silver) |
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| Variants | P#A7a - signatures: Karadjov & Tropchiev. 6 digit serial # P#A7b - signatures: Karadjov & Tropchiev. 7 digit serial # P#A7c - signatures: Karadjov & Urumov P#A7s1 - Specimen 000001-500000, perforated SPECIMEN. See A5 P#A7s2 - Specimen 500001-1000000, perforated SPECIMEN P#A7s3 - Specimen 1000001-2500000, perforated SPECIMEN |
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Bulgaria's first stable paper currency series came about under the terms of the 1879 Treaty of Berlin, which required the newly autonomous principality to establish a functioning monetary system rapidly. The Bulgarian National Bank was founded in 1879, but printed note series took years to stabilize — the 1899 Srebro issues represented a consolidation of that process, with Bradbury Wilkinson engaged precisely because their intaglio work was trusted to resist forgery in a region where counterfeit risk was a genuine policy concern.
The "Srebro" designation — meaning silver — indicated convertibility into silver coin, a promise that became increasingly difficult to honor following the financial strains of the Balkan conflicts a decade later.