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2000 Leva Bank Cheque
| Issuer | Общ Съюз на Популярните Банки (Common Union of Popular Banks) |
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| Value | 2000 Leva |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche-patterned cheque with the denomination numeral 2000 in large cornerpieces at left and right. The issuer's name is set in a central banner with handwritten date and serial number У 006040 in red at upper right. A detachable left stub carries the denomination in bold orange Cyrillic letters and the serial number repeated below. |
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| Obverse lettering | БАНКОВ ЧЕК гр. (с) ........................................................... (место и дата на ползуването на чека) ОБЩ СЪЮЗ НА ПОПУЛЯРНИТЕ БАНКИ срещу настоящия банков чек плаща на ........................................................... две хиляди лева. ОБЩ СЪЮЗ НА ПОПУЛЯРНИТЕ БАНКИ За подправка виновните се наказват съгласно чл. 183 и 191 от нак. закон (Translation: BANK CHEQUE town (village) ........................................................... (place and date of cheque usage) COMMON UNION OF POPULAR BANKS pays for this bank cheque to ........................................................... two thousand levs. COMMON UNION OF POPULAR BANKS For forgery the guilty are punished according Art. 183 and 191 of the criminal law) |
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The Общ Съюз на Популярните Банки — the Common Union of Popular Banks — was a cooperative banking federation active in Bulgaria during the interwar period, drawing membership from the network of locally-rooted "popular banks" that had proliferated across the country since the late nineteenth century. These institutions served artisans, small traders, and rural cooperatives largely excluded from mainstream commercial credit. A 2000 Leva instrument from this body is not a banknote in the central-bank sense but a negotiable cheque drawn on the Union itself, reflecting the federation's role as a clearing and lending hub for its member institutions rather than a note-issuing authority.
Bulgaria experienced severe monetary instability through the 1920s and into the 1930s, and large-denomination paper instruments of this kind circulated among institutional rather than retail users.