1937 Boris III Tsar Of Bulgaria 100 Leva Large Old European Silver Coin I114699

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Item:<br>i114699<br>Authentic Coin of:<br>Bulgaria<br>Boris III - Tsar of Bulgaria: 3 October 1918 – 28 August 1943<br>1937 Silver 100 Leva 34mm (19.88 grams) 0.500 Silver (0.3194 oz. ASW)<br>Reference: KM# 45 | Designer: Percy Metcalfe<br>БOPИCЪ III ЦАРЬ НА БЪЛГАИТѢ, Boris facing left.<br>100 ЛEBA, Two stalks of wheat and flower and bottom.<br>You are bidding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity.<br>Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria<br>(30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1894 - 28 August 1943), originally<br>Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver<br>(<br>Boris Clement Robert Mary Pius Louis Stanislaus Xavier<br>), son of Ferdinand I , came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I. This was the country's second major defeat in only five years, after the disastrous Second Balkan War (1913). Under the Treaty of Neuilly , Bulgaria was forced to cede new territories and pay crippling reparations to its neighbours, thereby threatening political and economic stability. Two political forces, the Agrarian Union and the Communist Party, were calling for the overthrowing of the monarchy and the change of the government. It was in these circumstances that Boris succeeded to the throne. He distinguished himself during the Second World War by opposing attempts by Adolf Hitler to deport the Jewish population of his country.<br>Boris was born on 30 January 1894 in Sofia . He was the first son of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria and his wife Princess Marie Louise .<br>In February 1896 his father paved the way for the reconciliation of Bulgaria and Russia with the conversion of the infant Prince Boris from Roman Catholicism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity , a move that earned Ferdinand the frustration of his wife, the animosity of his Catholic Austrian relatives (particularly that of his uncle, Franz Joseph I of Austria ) and excommunication from the Catholic Church. In order to remedy this difficult situation Ferdinand christened all his remaining children as Catholics. Nicholas II of Russia stood as godfather to Boris and met the young boy during Ferdinand's official visit to Saint Petersburg in July 1898.<br>He received his initial education in the so-called Palace Secondary School which Ferdinand created in 1908 solely for his sons. Later, Boris graduated from the Military School in Sofia , then took part in the Balkan Wars . During the First World War he served as liaison officer of the General Staff of the Bulgarian Army on the Macedonian front . In 1916 he was promoted to colonel and attached again as liaison officer to Army Group Mackensen and the Bulgarian Third Army for the operations against Romania . Boris worked hard to smooth the sometimes difficult relations between Field Marshal Mackensen and the commander of the 3rd army Lieutenant General Stefan Toshev . Through his courage and personal example he earned the respect of the troops and the senior Bulgarian and German commanders, even that of the Generalquartiermeister of the German Army Erich Ludendorff , who preferred dealing personally with Boris and described him as excellently trained, a thoroughly soldierly person and mature beyond his years. In 1918 Boris was made a major general and with the abdication of his father acceded to the throne as Tsar Boris III on 3 October 1918.<br>One year after Boris's accession, Aleksandar Stamboliyski (or<br>Stambolijski<br>) of the Bulgarian People's Agrarian Union was elected prime minister. Though popular with the large peasant class, Stambolijski earned the animosity of the middle class and military, which led to his toppling in a military coup on 9 June 1923, and his subsequent assassination. On 14 April 1925 an anarchist group attacked Boris's cavalcade as it passed through the Arabakonak Pass. Two days later a bomb killed 150 members of the Bulgarian political and military elite in Sofia as they attended the funeral of a murdered general (see St Nedelya Church assault ). Following a further attempt on Boris's life the same year military reprisals killed several thousand communists and agrarians, including representatives of the intelligentsia. Finally, in October 1925, there was a short border war with Greece, known as the Incident at Petrich , which was resolved with the help of the League of Nations .<br>In the coup on 19 May 1934 , the Zveno military organisation established a dictatorship and abolished the political parties in Bulgaria. King Boris was reduced to the status of a puppet king as a re