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100 Leva Srebro
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 1903 |
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| Value | 100 Leva |
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| Obverse lettering | Сто Лева Срѣбро Българската Народна Банка Плаща Прѣдѫвителю въ замѣна на таѫ банкнота (Translation: One Hundred Leva Silver The Bulgarian National Bank Pays the Bearer for exchange of this banknote) |
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| Reverse lettering | Сто Лева За подправка виновнитѣ се наказватъ съгласно §§ 183 и 191 отъ наказ. законъ. (Translation: One Hundred Leva For forgery the guilty are punished according Art. 183 and 191 of the criminal law) |
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Bulgaria's 1903 banknote series was printed in Saint Petersburg under a contract with the Imperial Russian state printing works — a politically freighted arrangement given Russian influence in Bulgarian affairs following the 1878 liberation from Ottoman rule. The choice of Goznak was practical as much as diplomatic: Bulgaria lacked domestic printing infrastructure capable of producing secure currency at scale.
The "Srebro" designation — silver — indicates this note was technically redeemable in silver coin, a convertibility guarantee the Bulgarian National Bank maintained fitfully through periods of fiscal strain in the early twentieth century. That redemption promise would become increasingly nominal after the Balkan Wars.