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10 Leva International Year of the Child, Piedfort
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Three children dressed in traditional Bulgarian folk costumes are depicted dancing in the centre of the field, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished background. The child on the left raises one hand holding a small object, the central child wears a characteristic folk hat, and the child on the right raises a hand in a joyful gesture. The UNICEF International Year of the Child emblem appears to the left of the figures, and the UNICEF logo appears to the lower right. The Cyrillic legend 'МЕЖДУНАРОДНА ГОДИНА НА ДЕТЕТО' arcs around the upper periphery, the date '1979' is inscribed at the base, and a decorative border of laurel sprigs frames the entire design. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Bulgaria's 1979 piedfort issues were produced in direct response to the UN's International Year of the Child, a program that proved commercially lucrative for socialist-bloc mints eager for hard currency. The Bulgarian National Bank was among several Eastern European institutions that issued collector pieces specifically targeting Western numismatic markets — foreign exchange, not commemoration, was the primary motive.
A piedfort strikes the same dies on a planchet roughly double standard thickness, a French practice revived in the 20th century almost exclusively for limited collector sales. KM#P3 confirms this as a catalog-recognized piedfort variety rather than a minting error.