2 Stotinki 2nd Coat of Arms

This issue belongs to the second series of People's Republic coinage introduced after the 1974 constitutional revision that formally reorganized the Bulgarian state. The updated coat of arms adopted that year reflected the political alignment of the Zhivkov government with Soviet-era iconography, and the coin series was retooled accordingly. Production continued through 1990, the year the Communist Party relinquished its monopoly on power and the country began its transition — making later-dated examples struck under a government already in the process of dissolving itself.