Catalog of Bulgarian Postage Stamps for 1879 year.

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Catalog of Bulgarian Postage Stamps for 1879 година 1 emissions

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"Santimi"

📅 01.05.1879 Regular Stamp 5 pcs.

1 (MI BG 1)

2 (MI BG 2)

3 (MI BG 3)

4 (MI BG 4)

5 (MI BG 5)

Artist: Franz Kepler

Short Description: The order for printing the first Bulgarian postage… more

Perforation: Framework 14 1/2:15

Paper: normal paper

Printing: for BC 1 — 250,000 pieces, for BC 2 — 100,000 pieces, for BC 3 — 500,000 pieces, for BC 4 — 150,000 pieces, for BC 5 — 90,000 pieces

Additional Information

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.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.Of all the values, there are those with darker or lighter shades, as well as those printed on thin paper.Of the 3, there are those without perforations.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.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.

BC №	Nominal	MNH	MLH	RG	Used/CTO
BC 1	5 stotinkaime	281.21 €	132.94 €	86.92 €	20.45 €
BC 2	10 stotinkaime	1 457.18 €	664.68 €	449.94 €	56.24 €
BC 3	25 stotinkaime	511.29 €	255.65 €	163.61 €	15.34 €
BC 4	50 stotinkaime	1 380.49 €	634.00 €	419.26 €	51.13 €
BC 5	1 franc	204.52 €	86.92 €	56.24 €	13.29 €
Series Total		3 834.69 €	1 774.18 €	1 175.97 €	156.46 €

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