- Silver .925
- Low mintage
Bachkovo Monastery
2013 · 10 leva · Bulgarian National Bank
Specifications
- Metal
- Silver 925/1000
- Weight
- 23.33 g
- Fine silver content
- 21.58 g (0.6938 oz t)
- Diameter
- 38.61 mm
- Quality
- Proof, mint state
- Official mintage
- 3,000
- Year of issue
- 2013
- Designer
- Evgenia Tsankova and Plamen Chernev
- Minted by
- Bulgarian Mint
- Catalogue no.
- BC-2013-05
- Issue price
- 66.00 лв
- ≈ €33.75 · BNB, 2013
- Market value (asking prices)
- €435.00
- median asking price of 2 listings, €319.99 – €550.00 · Balkan Auction, 19 Oct 2026
- Melt value
- €35.18
- Ag spot €50.70/oz · Oct 2026
Market prices – asking prices
Asking prices on Balkan Auction, 19 Oct 2026
- Ungraded coins
- €319.99 – €550.00
- median asking price €435.00 · 2 listings
- Graded (PCGS, NGC…)
- €679.00 – €950.00
- median asking price €814.50 · 2 listings
Sample listings
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, 2013)
- €33.75
- Asking price now (median)
- €435.00
- Change in value
- €401.25
- Total return
- +1189%
- Compounded yearly return
- +21.2%a year, over 13.3 years
Quick calculator
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get extra points, because much of that silver and gold was melted down and many coins were lost in the wars and withdrawn in 1952.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
The obverse features on the left: a replica of the miraculous Virgin Mary Eleusa icon of the Bachkovo Monastery; on the right: the nominal value ‘10 ЛЕВА’ (10 levs), the year of issue ‘2013’, the BNB logo with the year ‘1879’ on the strip and the inscription ‘БЪЛГАРСКА НАРОДНА БАНКА’ (Bulgarian National Bank) in semicircle.
Reverse
The reverse features the Bachkovo Monastery and two angels with a Virgin Mary icon of the fresco above the monastery gate; the inscription ‘БАЧКОВСКИ МАНАСТИР • УСПЕНИЕ БОГОРОДИЧНО’ (Bachkovo Monastery • The Assumption) in circumference.
Edge & packaging
Flat edge. Issued in a protective capsule with an information leaflet. The BNB advises keeping the capsule closed.
Image: Church of the Dormition, Bachkovo Monastery · Kritzolina, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
About this coin
Bachkovo Monastery
A 10 leva silver coin issued by the Bulgarian National Bank in 2013, part of the Bulgarian Churches and Monasteries series. 3,000 pieces were minted by the Bulgarian Mint, to a design by Evgenia Tsankova and Plamen Chernev.
Sources: BNB coin page · BNB register and prices · market listing 1
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