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harasha · August 25, 2015 9:27AM

You are the guys with whom I interact.
A fellow who calls himself The Bulgarian requested to follow me on Flickr. That motivated me to check out what I have Bulgarian in my own collection. Not much, it seems. I have one medal and one coin. I might post them this weekend. However, I briefly collected world currency, several years ago and I had a 500 Leva note. If I may beg you indulgence for posting on the wrong form, I present this note and two others that may interest the group.

brg5658 · August 25, 2015 9:33AM

I like that 5,000 drachmai note. The engraving of the hippocamp on the reverse is very nice!

harasha · August 25, 2015 10:16AM

Some of the Greek money, in the 20th century, kept true to classical artistic traditions.

Tookybandit · August 25, 2015 11:01AM

Those are great notes! I really like the third one.

JCMhouston · August 25, 2015 11:13AM

I like me some hippocamp! Very nice.

SaorAlba · August 25, 2015 11:29AM

Tsar Simeon is pictured on the 500 Leva note, curiously he is one of only two living WWII era leaders. A few years ago he was elected prime minister of Bulgaria and has been a high profile figure in Bulgarian politics since the fall of communism.

PatAR · August 25, 2015 1:39PM

The hippocamp is quite interesting! I wonder if one appears on any other type of coin or bill? Now I'm going to go looking... Your fault harasha!

harasha · August 25, 2015 6:44PM

I often have seen the hippocamp. It frequently shows up on a search for horses. Offhand, here is a 2 drachma coin minted under Greece's King George, in 1911.

Stork · August 25, 2015 9:14PM

Love the hippocamp! Well all of them are nice, but that's a great design.

The hippocamp is also on the 1 drachma as well, plus the $2 1/2 Pan-Pac, and multiple ancients. I can also think of one of the Eastern Carribean coins too, a conder and I'm sure more will occur to me later. When I'm on a more user friendly device I'll try and post a couple pictures of some really nice medal versions too.

silverpop · August 25, 2015 10:14PM

very nice notes

asheland · August 26, 2015 1:07AM

Pretty notes.

Andres · August 26, 2015 6:34AM

nice notes harasha ,

these 3 are from my greek banknote collection,
red one is slighty larger with approx. 7 x 3.5 inch versus 6 x 3 1/4 inch for the other 2.

harasha · August 26, 2015 6:58AM

So much more impressive when they are in pristine or close to pristine condition!

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