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10 Leva
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait vignette of Dr. Petar Beron at centre-left, set against a warm ochre guilloche underprint with scattered circular ornaments. To the right, illustrations from Beron's 1824 primer — a rhinoceros, a globe, a fish, and a facsimile of the title page — are rendered in light violet and gold tones, alongside his vertical Cyrillic name inscription and life dates. A holographic security strip runs along the left edge, and the large numeral '10' appears at lower right in bicolour intaglio. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a 19th-century refracting telescope on a tripod, rendered in violet intaglio against a multicoloured guilloche background of yellow, green, and orange. Surrounding underprint panels incorporate astronomical diagrams including a solar system schematic, lunar phase sequence, planetary orbits, and a celestial globe, referencing Beron's scientific writings. The large denomination numeral '10' appears at lower left in violet, with the bank name in Cyrillic along the left edge and the anti-counterfeiting warning inscription at upper left. |
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Bulgaria's 1999 banknote series was issued in the immediate aftermath of the catastrophic 1996–97 hyperinflation, during which the lev lost the vast majority of its value and the country was forced to adopt a currency board arrangement pegged to the Deutsche Mark. The redenomination that accompanied this series replaced 1,000 old leva with a single new one — this note's face value would have been 10,000 leva under the previous numbering.
Gogov designed the full series. The Bulgarian National Bank's in-house printing works, established in Sofia, took over production responsibility from that point forward — an assertion of domestic capacity that not every central bank of comparable size has managed.