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100 000 Leva
| Issuer | Bulgarska Narodna Banka (Bulgarian National Bank) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | First lev (1881-1952) |
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| Obverse description | Check-style instrument drawn on the Central Administration of the Bulgarian National Bank, Sofia branch, dated 31 December 1922, with the denomination 100,000 leva written both in numerals and in Cyrillic script. Two fiscal revenue stamps of 15 stotinki are affixed at upper left, and the document bears a circular bank seal at lower left alongside manuscript signatures of authorizing officials. |
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| Protection description | Two 15 stotinki fiscal revenue stamps affixed to the obverse at upper left. |
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Bulgaria's postwar financial crisis after the First World War was severe enough that the government resorted to an unusual expedient: rather than printing entirely new high-denomination notes, existing notes were overstamped with revenue stamps to validate and authorize their inflated face values. The P#33C is a product of that stop-gap approach.
The 100,000 Leva denomination itself signals the scale of the inflationary pressure Bulgaria faced under the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine reparations burden, which stripped the country of territory, livestock, and hard currency simultaneously.