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2 Leva Slavonic Alphabet
| Issuer | Bulgaria |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Value | 2 Leva (2 BGL) |
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| Obverse lettering | НАРОДНА РЕПУБЛИКА 2 ЛЕВА БЪЛГАРИЯ (Translation: The People's Republic of Bulgaria 2 Leva) |
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| Reverse lettering | КИРИЛ И МЕТОДИЙ · СЛАВЯНСКА ПИСМЕНОСТ · 863-1963 · (Translation: Cyril and Methodius · Slavic writing · 863-1963 ·) |
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Issued to mark the 1,100th anniversary of the creation of the Glagolitic script by Saints Cyril and Methodius, this coin belongs to a small wave of Bulgarian commemoratives produced during the early Zhivkov years, when the regime leaned heavily on medieval cultural heritage as a source of socialist-nationalist legitimacy. The Cyrillic alphabet — derived from Glagolitic — was developed by their disciples in the Preslav Literary School after 886 AD, and Bulgaria's role in its dissemination gave the communist government a rare piece of history it could celebrate without ideological awkwardness.
KM#65 was struck at the Bulgarian Mint in Sofia with a reported mintage of 50,000 pieces.