1 lev, 1999
Obverse • An image of a 1789 icon depicting of Saint Ivan Rilski from the Uspenie Bogorodichno (Assumption of Our Lady) Church in the Pchelino Postnica (Hermitage) near the Rila Monastery. |
Reverse • An image of the main Rila Monastery church set off by the cloister's open-air walkways. |
SPECIFICATIONS | |
Issue |
1999 |
Nominal value |
1 lev |
Size |
112 x 60 mm, horizontal |
Watermark |
a half-tone silhouette of a rampant lion |
Security thread |
a thread incorporated in the banknote paper with initials ‘БНБ’ (BNB) appearing as a negative microprint |
Marks for visually impaired people |
an embossed triangle pointed upwards and a circle underneath |
In circulation |
from 5 July 1999 to 31 December 2015 |