Catalog
2 Leva - Boris III
| Issuer | Tsardom of Bulgaria |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
| Obverse lettering | БѪЛГАРИЯ СЪЕДИНЕНИЕТО ПРАВИ СИЛАТА |
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Boris III ascended the Bulgarian throne in 1918 following his father Ferdinand I's forced abdication after the catastrophic Second Balkan War and World War I defeats. The 1923 issue landed in a politically explosive year: in June, Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski was overthrown and murdered in a coup backed by the Military League and IMRO, ending the Agrarian government and installing Aleksandar Tsankov. Coinage continued through the upheaval with minimal interruption — the machinery of the mint outlasting any particular government.
The aluminium-bronze alloy used here, unusual in its aluminium-dominant formulation, reflects postwar metal economics in a country stripped of resources and saddled with reparations under the 1919 Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine.