2 levs, 2005
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Obverse • The portrait of Paisius of Hilendar. The background depicts the Zografou Monastery on Mount Athos, the Monastery Seal, and the interior of Pagisios' monastic cell. |
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Reverse • a facsimile of the Zografou draft of the ‘Historiae Sclavo-Bulgaricus’ with a list of Bulgarian rulers; images of Tsar Kaloyan’s Ring Seal and three seals with the images of Bulgarian Sovereigns Mihail Shishman, Svetoslav Terter and Ivan Asen II; Hristofor Zhefarovich's crowned lion rampant; Bulgaria's Coat of Arms with three lions, as published in 1483 in the Gruenberg Heraldic Compendium. |
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS | |
Issue |
2005 |
Nominal value |
2 levs |
Dimensions |
116 x 64 mm, horizontal |
Watermark |
a half-tone silhouette of a rampant lion |
Security thread |
a thread incorporated in the paper with negative microprint ‘БНБ’ (BNB). |
Mark for visually impaired people |
two embossed rectangles |
In circulation |
from 6 December 2005 to 31 December 2020 |