- Base metal
- Low mintage
- Coloured
Sourvakari
2002 · 5 leva · Bulgarian National Bank
Specifications
- Metal
- Copper-nickel alloy, coloured
- Weight
- 15 g
- Diameter
- 34.2 mm
- Quality
- Proof
- Official mintage
- 5,000
- Year of issue
- 2002
- Series
- Individual issue
- Designer
- Stefan Nenov
- Minted by
- Sofia, Bulgaria
- Catalogue no.
- BC-2002-08
- Issue price
- 7.00 лв
- ≈ €3.58 · BNB, 2002
- Market value (asking prices)
- €700.00
- median asking price of 3 listings, €690.00 – €1,100.00 · Balkan Auction, 19 Oct 2026
- Melt value
- —
- base metal, not tracked
Market prices – asking prices
Asking prices on Balkan Auction, 19 Oct 2026
- Ungraded coins
- €690.00 – €1,100.00
- median asking price €700.00 · 3 listings
Sample listings
- 5лв.2002г.Сурвакари ТОП€1,100.00
- 5 лева 2002 - Сурвакари€700.00
- 5 лева, 2002 г. Сурвакари€690.00
Asking prices of active listings (fixed price, starting price or current highest bid) in the public coin category of Balkan Auction. These are asking prices, not completed sales. Lots, sets, replicas, error varieties and precious-metal prices below the metal value are excluded. BulgarianCoins does not buy, sell or value coins.
What if you had bought it at issue?
- Issue price (BNB, 2002)
- €3.58
- Asking price now (median)
- €700.00
- Change in value
- €696.42
- Total return
- +19458%
- Compounded yearly return
- +24.2%a year, over 24.3 years
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Indicative only: the current price is the median of asking prices on Balkan Auction on 19 Oct 2026, not a sale price; fees, taxes and condition are not included.
Relative rarity
7/10 · Rare
How we calculate it
The score starts from the mintage on a logarithmic scale (500 coins or fewer = 10, ten million = 1). Coins of the Principality and the Kingdom that circulated get extra points, because much of that silver and gold was melted down and many coins were lost in the wars and withdrawn in 1952. Modern commemorative coins lose a point, since almost all of them survive in collections. Finally we look at how often the coin is offered on Balkan Auction: frequent offers lower the score.
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Obverse
On the obverse of the coin bearing the nominal value is the logo of the BNB and the figure ‘5’ and the texts ‘ЛЕВА’, and ‘БЪЛГАРСКА НАРОДНА БАНКА’, as well as the year of issue – ‘2002’.
Reverse
The reverse of the coin features the coloured image of two ‘sourvakari’ children (boys going from house to house wishing people a Happy New Year) and the inscription in circumference of a New Year wish ‘СУРВА, ВЕСЕЛА ГОДИНА – ЖИВИ, ЗДРАВИ ДО АМИНА’.
Edge & packaging
Flat edge. Issued in a protective capsule with an information leaflet. The BNB advises keeping the capsule closed.
Image: The Bulgarian National Bank building, Sofia · Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
About this coin
Sourvakari
A 5 leva base metal coin issued by the Bulgarian National Bank in 2002. 5,000 pieces were minted in Sofia, Bulgaria, to a design by Stefan Nenov.
Sources: BNB coin page · BNB register and prices · market listing 1
