HISTORY OF BULGARIAN PAPER MONEY is the first serious investigation of the bank-note currency in Bulgaria. This is a vast work, very well illustrated with a lot of photos and documents. This is a book of true merit as well as for specialists and for those who will read such kind of literature for the first time.

     HISTORY OF BULGARIAN PAPER MONEY has 400 pages and contents more than 350 colored professionally made photos that present the exact size and color of the front and the back of Bulgarian paper money. Some of the photos as the projects of Alfons Mouha, Tsvetana Kosturkova and the sample of 200 leva, 1929 of Thomas de La Rue & Coy.Ltd are published for the first time.

     Instead of introduction the author Kostadin N. Hristov explains what does notafilia means. At the same time he offers a short interpreting vocabulary of the terms used in notafilia and numismatics, which is very useful.

     The work of the history of paper money starts with a description of the currency in Bulgarian lands before the liberation from Turkish slavery. In the next chapter the currency from the liberation in 1878 to the beginning of the emission activity of the founded main Bulgarian national bank is investigated. K Hristov examines separately the state emblem of Bulgaria and the changes that he passed trough. The author correctly evaluated the importance of this element, because the state emblem has its special place on the most of Bulgarian bank-notes.

K. Hristov examines in details the law and normative acts that give the right the National bank of Bulgaria to emit coins and bank-notes.

In this aspect the most important act in this field is that of the year of 1885. The author manages to present an actual picture of the legislation, connected with the emission practice of the National Bank of Bulgaria in a detailed chronological description of the different emissions of paper money.

All emissions of banknotes, started with the first "golden", followed by golden-silver", "Orlov" etc. are described in details in HISTORY OF BULGARIAN PAPER MONEY
Despite the regular emissions of bank-notes cash bonds, state treasure bonds, periodic cash bonds and stamped state treasure bonds are presented in the book. The interesting story for 5000 leva of year of 1924, called Botevka is tolled.

    
The reader will learn interesting details about 10 leva bank-notes "Rakovski" and 20 leva "Anhialo". Details about the bank-notes of the so called "Turkish emission" of 50 and 100 leva are explained for the first time. An original contribution of the author is the description of the main counterfeit bank-notes and of those from 1999 emission.

If you should outline the most valuable chapter so this is "Thracian paper money"
By the way these are one of the rarest and coveted from the collectors Bulgarian bank-notes. It is well known from the history how cruel and unfair for Bulgaria was the Treaty of Neuilly. With a lot of documents K. Hristov shows what the currency in Bulgarian lands occupied by French and Senegal army was.

After the end of the Second World War in the French town Neuilly was take a decision the Bulgarian lands of Thracian to be annexed to Greece and the Bulgarian inhabitants to be exiled. The author quite vivid describes these so sad for Bulgaria days through a lot of historical documents that for the first time are gathered and present together in the context of the currency of the paper money.

The chapters for the so called "Serbian leva" and "Macedonian leva" are not less important. K. Hristov is again original in his investigations with a lot of suitable documents enclosed.

There is a detailed description of the unique bank-note "Bulgarian pound" in the book. This is an exceptionally rare bank-note, emitted by Grate Britain aimed to be used in Bulgaria after the year of 1943.

Other paper money is described in the book HISTORY OF BULGARIAN PAPER MONEY - post bonds, tax corn bonds, Bulgarian war money and politic paper money.

Original bank-note photos as a specimen copies, projects, bank-notes printed in different than those in circulation color and etc. are presented.

HISTORY OF BULGARIAN PAPER MONEY is a value work with an original contribution. It is the most representative investigation of the paper money currency in Bulgaria. This book has its cognitive and educational importance for the young people and should have its own place in every school and community centre library.
There is no doubt that HISTORY OF BULGARIAN PAPER MONEY will be of use for the students of all economic higher schools.

HISTORY OF BULGARIAN PAPER MONEY can present Bulgaria all over the world and with all these high quality color photos it is like an album - a perfect present for everybody in all occasions.