The Lev is the currency of which country?
Bulgarian lev April 2005, when the country's EU accession treaty was signed, the BNB issued a commemorative coin with the face value of 1.95583 leva. Bulgarian lev The lev (, plural: / , ) is the currency of Bulgaria. It is divided in 100 "stotinki" (, singular: , ). In archaic Bulgarian the word "lev" meant "lion", a word which in the modern language became "lăv" (IPA: ) (in Bulgarian: лъв). Stotinka comes from the word "sto" (сто) - a hundred. The lev was introduced as Bulgaria's currency in 1881 with a value equal to the French franc. The gold standard was
The Gift of Asher Lev The Gift of Asher Lev The Gift of Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok, published in 1990. It is a sequel to Potok's novel "My Name Is Asher Lev" (1972). The brilliant, schismatic Hasidic painter Asher Lev is now a middle-aged man, residing with his wife and children in the south of France. When his beloved Uncle Yitzchok dies, Asher is abruptly summoned back to Brooklyn. Soon after the funeral, he learns that his uncle had secretly been collecting art for many years and has amassed a valuable collection, of which Asher is to be the trustee. Asher