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5 Leva Baba Marta
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Weight | 15 g |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a colorful enamel depiction of a martenitsa, the traditional Bulgarian talisman associated with the Baba Marta holiday celebrated on 1 March. The design shows two stylized figures — one predominantly red and one white — intertwined with decorative knots rendered in red, green, and white enamel against a green and red background, evoking the colors of spring and the Bulgarian national flag. Small cloud-like floral motifs flank the composition on the left. The Cyrillic legend ЧЕСТИТА БАБА МАРТА (Happy Baba Marta) is inscribed along the lower and right periphery. |
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Baba Marta is the Bulgarian personification of March, a folk figure whose arrival is marked each year on March 1st by the exchange of martenitsi — red-and-white twisted yarn tokens worn until the first stork or blossoming tree is spotted. The Bulgarian National Bank issued this coin as part of a broader commemorative program celebrating national customs, several of which drew on pre-Christian Thracian and Slavic calendrical traditions that survived centuries of Ottoman rule largely intact in rural communities.
KM#279 had a strictly limited mintage, typical of the bank's collector-focused folklore series from this period.