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50 Leva Not issued
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Size | 130 × 69 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Народна Република България Петдесет лева За подправка виновните се наказват по закона (Translation: People's Republic of Bulgaria Fifty Leva For forgery the guilty are punished according to the law) |
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| Reverse lettering | Петдесет лева Държавен Съкровищен Билет (Translation: Fifty Leva State Treasury Note) |
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This note was prepared but never released into circulation — Bulgaria's political upheaval in late 1989, which ended decades of Communist Party rule, effectively rendered it obsolete before it could be issued. The Zhivkov government fell in November of that year, and the incoming administration had little appetite for launching currency bearing the visual vocabulary of the old regime.
Printed entirely in-country by the State Printing House in Sofia, it required no foreign security printer — unusual for Eastern Bloc states, which frequently contracted Thomas De La Rue or other Western firms for high-denomination work. Its unlisted Pick status reflects genuinely thin documentation; surviving specimens entered collector hands through channels that remain poorly recorded.