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5 Leva Alexander Stamboliiski
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Weight | 20.5 g |
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| Reverse description | A bold, sculpted left-facing bust of Alexander Stamboliiski fills the central field, rendered in high relief with finely detailed curling hair and a strong facial profile characteristic of commemorative medallic portraiture. The name АЛЕКСАНДЪР СТАМБОЛИЙСКИ is inscribed in Cyrillic along the upper periphery, arcing from lower left to upper right. Below the truncation, the birth and death years 1879 and 1923 are separated by raised bullet stops, centered in the lower field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stamboliiski was the agrarian populist prime minister assassinated in 1923 by a right-wing coup — his killers reportedly sent his severed head to Sofia in a biscuit tin. The fifty-year gap between his death and this commemorative issue reflects how thoroughly the interwar political right had suppressed his memory, and how selectively socialist Bulgaria rehabilitated its historical figures once ideological alignment could be constructed around them.