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| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Currency | Second lev (1952-1962) |
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| Obverse lettering | НАРОДНА РЕПУБЛИКА БЪЛГАРИЯ |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 СТОТИНКИ 1951 (Translation: 25 Stotinki) |
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The 1951 Bulgarian coinage series was issued in the immediate aftermath of the country's currency reform of 1952 — or rather, in anticipation of it. These coins were struck and stockpiled before the reform wiped out old lev holdings at punishing exchange rates, a Soviet-model monetary restructuring designed to neutralize black-market wealth accumulated during and after the war. Circulation was brief almost by design.