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Money of Bulgaria

country Monetary unit - a lion (BGL). The national currency quotation.

The Lion, as the monetary unit of Bulgaria injected in 1880  to year, it is divided on 100  stotinok. Gold coins of denomination in 20 and 10  were first pinched out; levov, silver and change from bronze, nickel and aluminium. Throughout half a century are left considerably have depreciated. The pristine content of gold in a coin in 1928  to year has decreased with 0,29  gramme to 0,011  pure gold gramme. The government of the Bulgarian National Republic carried out a number of provisions on monetary circulation stabilisation in the country (in 1947 and 1952 ), in 1962  to year bank notes of the new sample have been released. In 1990th years Bulgaria has gone through the hyperinflation season when cost of one American dollar attained several thousand levov.