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5 Leva Paisi Hilendarski
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Currency | Third lev (1962-1999) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
| Obverse lettering | НАРОДНА РЕПУБЛИКА БЪЛГАРИЯ 5 ЛЕВА (Translation: The People's Republic of Bulgaria 5 Leva) |
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Issued to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Paisiy Hilendarski, the 18th-century monk whose manuscript history of the Bulgarian people — written in 1762 at the Hilendar monastery on Mount Athos — is widely credited with igniting the Bulgarian National Revival movement. The communist government of Todor Zhivkov leaned heavily on such historical figures to construct a usable nationalist narrative, funding commemorative issues that dressed Marxist cultural policy in medieval Bulgarian clothing.
The coin was struck at the Sofia Mint in a limited commemorative run, not intended for general circulation.