Bulgaria 5 Leva 2009 |
Item Code: BG-116B |
Front:
Ivan
Milev (1897 -1927), painter, avant-garde stage designer.
An engraving of Ivan Milev, a noted Bulgarian 1920s artist. Painting "Art and the Crown of Thorns", decorative motifs from his other works, passages from his letters and a monogram from a bill advertising his first exhibition, held in Sofia in 1925. Excerpt from Ivan Milev's writing. Back: Fragments from Ivan Milev's paintings "A Woman Harvesting", "The Bulgarian Madonna", and "Wedding of the Dragon". Watermark: Portrait of Ivan Milev Lalev; Electrotype "BNB". Predominant colour: Burgundy red. Signature: Ivan Iskrov (Governor); Stefan Tzvetkov (Chief Cashier). Date of Issue: 1 June 2009. Legal tender: Yes. Paper: 100% cotton. Printer: BNB Printing Works, Sofia. |
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Dimensions: 121 x 67 mm |
Security Features Copy Prevention Stripe - a holographic stripe: the figure 5 glinting in more effect and changing colour and images of a boy's head and a stylized frower alternating when the viewing angle is changed. A holographic stripe demetalized along the edge with a minitext B'LGARSKA NARODNA BANKA 5 (Bulgarian National Bank 5). Security Thread - a metalized stripe woven into the paoer glinting in more effect seen in changing colours of the figure 5 when the viewing ange is changed with a minitext BNB 5", partially showing throgh one of the reverse side of the banknote; along with a special polarization effect. Watermark - a half-tone outline of the portrait depicted on the banknote and electrotype "BNB". Fluorescence - under UV light at a wavelength of 365 nm: the fibres embedded in the paper glow blue, green and red; on the obverse eide of the banknote, the stripe with the recurring figures 5 and the series numbers in the area on the right of the holographic stripe glow green; the area on the right of the portrait glows red; on the reverse side, the images of the woman with a child and the women reaper glow green. On the reverse of the banknote an image of a boy's head glows red at a wavelenght of 365 nm and green at a wavelenght of 254 nm. See-through register - as the banknote is held against the light, the figure 5 appears within the rectangular chequered field. Microprint on the obverse - horizontal lines text IVAN MILEV" in the background on the left of the portrait; in two vertical lines on the right of the portrait the words IVAN MILEV" and 5 LEV? (5 LEVS) filling the figure 5. Microprint on the reverse - lines with IVAN MILEV" and 1897 1927 forming a stripe in the left part of the background net, as well as filling the sleeve of a woman reaper and the figure 5" in the field under it. Hidden image - at a viewing angle 15 - 20 degrees, the words 5 LEV? (5 LEVS) appear on the right of the holographic stripe. Raised Print - the portrait of Ivan Milev; the words B'LGARSKA NARODNA BANKA (BULGARIAN NATIONAL BANK) and PET LEV? (FIVE LEVS), the figure 5, the vignette, the vignette and the words 5 LEV? (5 LEVS) appearing on the holographic stripe. Visually impaired aid - a raised image of two identical triangles with an apex pointing up, situated vertically. |
Texts:
Blgarska Narodna banka. Pet Leva. Upravitel. Glaven
Kasier. Za podpravka vinovnite se nakazvat |
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