2 Leva Slavonic Alphabet

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.