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2 Leva
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 1962 |
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| Size | 108 × 56 mm |
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| Reverse description | The right half of the note is occupied by an intaglio vignette of a female grape-picker harvesting bunches of grapes, set against a fine guilloche background in green tones. The denomination 'ДВА ЛЕВА' appears in large bold Cyrillic letters at centre-left, surmounted by the bank title along the upper border, with legal tender and forgery warning texts printed in smaller type below the denomination. Guilloche rosettes enclosing the numeral '2' are placed at the lower-left and lower-right corners. |
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| Protection description | A net pattern of stylized sickle and hammer motifs. |
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| Comments |
Bulgaria's 1962 note series — of which this is the lowest denomination — was printed by Goznak in Moscow, a routine arrangement for Soviet-bloc states during this period. The Bulgarian National Bank had little operational independence from broader Eastern Bloc monetary policy at the time, and the decision to outsource printing to the USSR's state security printer was as political as it was logistical.
Watermarking was the sole security feature, modest even by contemporary Warsaw Pact standards.