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10 Stotinki - Aleksandr I
| Issuer | Principality of Bulgaria |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Currency | First lev (1881-1952) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 СТОТИНКИ 1881 HEATON (Translation: 10 Stotinki) |
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Bulgaria's first coinage as a modern state came directly from the 1878 Treaty of Berlin, which established the Principality under Ottoman suzerainty and installed the German prince Alexander of Battenberg on the throne. The 1881 series was struck at the Saint Petersburg Mint — a deliberate political alignment with Russia, which had sponsored Bulgarian autonomy in the first place.
Alexander would be deposed five years later in a Russian-backed coup, making this brief early coinage the only issues to bear his name.