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1000 Leva
| Issuer | Glavna Direktsia na Darzhavnite i na Garantiranite ot Darzhavata Dalgove (General Directorate of State and State-Guaranteed Debts) |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The face of this Bulgarian state treasury bond is dominated by a central Cyrillic text block set over a lightly printed guilloche underprint, with the denomination numeral 1000 repeated in the upper left and upper right corners. The Bulgarian state arms — a lion rampant within a crowned shield — appears at the right margin, with a subsidiary arms vignette at the left. The issuing authority inscription ГЛАВНА ДИРЕКЦИЯ НА ДЪРЖАВНИТЕ И НА ГАРАНТИРАНИТЕ ОТ ДЪРЖАВАТА ДЪЛГОВЕ runs across the top, with the date Sofia, 15 November 1944 and facsimile signature lines for the Director of State Debts and the Minister of Finance below the central text. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a structured interest payment schedule in Cyrillic letterpress, arranged in three columnar sections within a guilloche border frame, detailing redemption values of 5, 15, and 25 leva per month for numbered bond series covering the period 1944 to 1946. The heading СТОЙНОСТ appears above the table, with supplementary legal text in smaller type, and the denomination 1000 is repeated in the upper centre and in both lateral panels. |
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The P#67M designation marks this as a specimen — "M" following the Pick number in Bulgarian cataloging conventions indicating a muestra or model example rather than a circulated issue. The Glavna Direktsia, functioning as Bulgaria's de facto central monetary authority during this period, issued the 1944 1000 Leva series at an extraordinarily fraught moment: September 1944 brought the Soviet-backed Fatherland Front coup, and notes from this series crossed the political transition, circulating under both the old regime and its immediate successor.
Rapid wartime inflation had already eroded public confidence in high-denomination paper by this point, and the 1000 Leva represented a denomination that would soon require successor issues at multiples far beyond it.