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10 Leva Liberation
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Currency | Fourth lev (1999-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a sculptural high-relief depiction of two uniformed soldiers in 19th-century military attire, rendered in a monumental style evoking the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878. The date '1878' is prominently inscribed in the upper field above the figures. A decorative ribbon element bearing the Cyrillic inscription 'ВЕЧНА ПАМЕТ НА ГЕРОИТЕ' (Eternal Memory to the Heroes) is rendered along the lower portion of the design. The circumferential legend '130 ГОДИНИ ОТ ОСВОБОЖДЕНИЕТО' (130th Anniversary of the Liberation) arcs around the upper periphery of the coin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 130 ГОДИНИ ОТ ОСВОБОЖДЕНИЕТО 1878 (Translation: 130th Anniversary of the Liberation) |
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Issued to mark the 130th anniversary of Bulgaria's liberation from Ottoman rule following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, a conflict that ended five centuries of Ottoman administration over the Bulgarian lands. The Treaty of Berlin that same year, however, walked back much of what the earlier Treaty of San Stefano had granted — partitioning the initially envisioned Greater Bulgaria and leaving a substantial Bulgarian population outside the new principality's borders, a political wound that shaped Bulgarian foreign policy for decades.