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1 Lev Foreign Exchange Certificate
| Issuer | Balkan Touriste (ДСО Турист) |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Currency | Third lev (1962-1999) |
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| Obverse lettering | ТОЗИ ТАЛОН ВАЖИ САМО ЗА ХРАНА И НАПИТКИ В ХОТЕЛИТЕ И РЕСТОРАНТИТЕ НА БАЛКАНТУРИСТ ДСО · ТУРИСТ · при ГУТ ТАЛОН СОФИЯ 1966 ЕДИН ЛЕВ ТОЗИ ТАЛОН ПРЕДСТАВЛЯВА ЦЕННА КНИГА И В ПОДПРАВКАТА МУ ВИНОВНИЯТ СЕ НАКАЗВАТ ПО ЗАКОНА |
| Reverse description | Plain light tan guilloche underprint overall. Central oval vignette contains a white outline map of Bulgaria with a five-pointed star above, inscribed BALKAN TOURISTE in brown capital letters within the oval border. |
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Balkan Touriste's foreign exchange certificates were introduced to capture hard currency from visitors while keeping convertible funds out of Bulgarian hands. The system ran parallel to the lev, which was officially inconvertible — tourists were pushed toward these certificates, which could be spent at Corecom shops stocked with imported goods ordinary citizens could not legally access. That retail apartheid was the point.
The 1966 date places this among the earliest issues of the series, before the scheme was restructured under Bulgarska Turisticheska Banka in the 1970s.