Country: Bulgaria

Series: 1997 Issue
Catalog codes: World Paper Money P-111a
Issued on: 1997-06-17
Distribution: Standard Circulation
Size: 161 x 80 mm
Composition: Paper
Printer: Giesecke & Devrient (Germany) - G&D
Face value: 5,000 лв - Bulgarian lev
Description:
Watermark: portrait of Zahari Stoyanov
Security thread with microprint “BNB"
Designation for blind people – two triangles
Obverse: Zahari Stoyanov
anti-copy stripe, anti-copy element (the letters “БНБ” with alternating colors)
Reverse: the monument in Plovdiv, dedicated to Eastern Roumelia’s union with Bulgaria
Artistic design – Kiril Gogov
In circulation from 17 June 1996 to 31 December 1999
The same design without a hologram stripe was used for the 1997 issue
Quality: Unc (uncirculated)