Philately Bulgaria - New Generation

In use: 30.09.1901. In practice, the stamps were exhausted by mid-1882, for the 5 s. stamp - by 12.1883, 50 s. - by 06.1879, and for 1 fr. - by 1887.</br></br>BK 1 was printed three times - with orders from 3.XII.1878 (50,000), 13.VIII.1879 (100,000) and 21.V.1880 (100,000), 2-5 were printed only with the first order. The indicated circulations of the individual values ​​are controversial, as they do not correspond to the documents indicating that under the first order from 3 .XII. In 1878, a total of 1,000,000 stamps were requested for printing and arrived in Bulgaria.</br></br>Of all the values, there are those with darker or lighter shades, as well as those printed on thin paper.</br></br>Of the 3, there are those without perforations.</br></br>The watermark is also found inverted 180°, mirrored, mirrored and inverted 180°. Stamps with a larger part of a letter in the watermark are rarer.</br></br>Immediately after the Liberation, Bulgaria did not have its own currency. In accordance with the requirements of the Universal Postal Union, the nominal values ​​of the first Bulgarian postage stamps were in the currency of the Latin Monetary Union - the gold franc, with 1 franc = 100 stotinkaimes. By law of June 4, 1880, the Bulgarian currency, the gold lev, was introduced, with 1 lev = 100 stotinki. Until the introduction of postage stamps with values ​​in stotinki and lev, post offices used the calculation 1 franc = 1 lev.