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Voucher - 400 Leva State Loan with Coupons
| Issuer | People's Republic of Bulgaria |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Value | 400 Leva |
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| Obverse description | Purple letterpress on pale pink paper. The Bulgarian state coat of arms flanked by agricultural and industrial vignettes occupies the upper register, with a ornate guilloche border enclosing four corner medallions each bearing the numeral 400. Central Cyrillic text states the bond title, denomination in words and figures, bearer clause, and Sofia 1952 date. |
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| Obverse lettering | НАРОДНА РЕПУБЛИКА БЪЛГАРИЯ 2% ДЪРЖАВЕН КОНВЕРСИОНЕН ЗАЕМ 1952 ГОДИНА ОБЛИГАЦИЯ 400 ЗА ЧЕТИРИСТОТИН ЛВ. НА ПРИНОСИТЕЛЯ София - 1952 год. |
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The 1952 Bulgarian state loan vouchers were instruments of compulsory borrowing, not voluntary investment. The postwar Bulgarian government ran several rounds of forced subscription drives through the early 1950s, pressuring citizens and state enterprises to "purchase" loan bonds as a condition of political and economic participation. The 400 Leva denomination placed this squarely in the working-population tier — large enough to represent a meaningful extraction, small enough to avoid the separate bureaucratic handling reserved for institutional subscribers.
The attached coupon strips allowed holders to claim periodic interest payments, though redemption in practice was erratic and the real value of returns was steadily eroded by the lev's controlled exchange conditions following the 1952 currency reform, which itself wiped out a significant fraction of older monetary savings.