Kingdom of Bulgaria - 1928 $1,000 or $500 Bulgarian Bond - Canceled

Available Green $500 or Red $1,000 Bond. Please specify type. Printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., Engravers, New Malden, Surrey, England. It is interesting to note that these are U.S. Dollar denominated bonds. After WWI, many Dollar bonds were issued for help and/or reconstruction of several European Countries.

The Kingdom of Bulgaria, also known as the Tsardom of Bulgaria and the Third Bulgarian Tsardom, was a constitutional monarchy located in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It was officially established on 5 October (O.S. 22 September) 1908, when Bulgaria transitioned from a principality to a kingdom. Ferdinand I was crowned Tsar during the Declaration of Independence, primarily due to his military ambitions and his pursuit of unifying all territories in the Balkans with a significant ethnic Bulgarian population—territories that had been ceded to the Ottoman Empire under the Treaty of Berlin. Throughout its existence, the state was frequently engaged in warfare, earning it the moniker "the Balkan Prussia." For several years, Bulgaria mobilized an army exceeding 1 million personnel from a total population of approximately 5 million.

In the 1910s, it participated in three significant conflicts: the First and Second Balkan Wars, as well as the First World War. After the conclusion of the First World War, the Bulgarian military was disbanded and prohibited from reconstituting by the Allied Powers, leading to the failure of all national unification efforts. Less than twenty years later, Bulgaria entered another conflict for national unification during the Second World War, ultimately finding itself on the losing side until it switched allegiance to the Allies in 1944. In 1946, the monarchy was dismantled, its last Tsar was exiled, and the Kingdom was succeeded by the People's Republic of Bulgaria.