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5 Stotinki 2nd Coat of Arms
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 1974-1990 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 СТОТИНКИ 1989 (Translation: 5 Stotinki 1989) |
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This issue belongs to the long-running socialist coinage series introduced after Bulgaria's 1971 constitution formally redefined the state, which prompted a redesign of the national arms and necessitated a new coin program. The series ran for nearly two decades with minimal interruption, overlapping the final, increasingly unstable years of Todor Zhivkov's government before his removal in November 1989.
Production continued into 1990 — the year the Bulgarian Communist Party rebranded itself and one-party rule collapsed — making the later-dated pieces quiet artifacts of a state dissolving around its own mint.