- Silver .925
- Low mintage
Troyan Monastery
2014 · 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
- Announced by BNB
- Designer
- Stefan Ivanov
- Minted by
- Bulgarian Mint
- Catalogue no.
- BC-2014-01
- Issue price
- 66.00 лв
- ≈ €33.75 · BNB, 2014
- Market value (asking prices)
- —
- no verified data yet
- Melt value
- €35.18
- Ag spot €50.70/oz · Oct 2026
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get extra points, because much of that silver and gold was melted down and many coins were lost in the wars and withdrawn in 1952.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 of the coin features on the left: the icon of Virgin Mary with Three Hands kept at the Troyan Monastery; on the right (one below the other): the nominal value ‘10 ЛЕВА’ (10 levs), the BNB logo with the year ‘1879’ on the strip, and (perpendicularly underneath) the year of issue ‘2014’; the inscription ‘БЪЛГАРСКА НАРОДНА БАНКА’ (Bulgarian National Bank) in semicircle.
Reverse
The reverse features the monastery complex and the inscriptions ‘ТРОЯНСКИ МАНАСТИР’ and ‘УСПЕНИЕ БОГОРОДИЧНО’ (Troyan Monastery and the Assumption of Virgin Mary) in semicircles.
Edge & packaging
Flat edge. Issued in a protective capsule with an information leaflet. The BNB advises keeping the capsule closed.
Image: Troyan Monastery · CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
The story behind the coin
Troyan Monastery
The obverse shows the icon of the Virgin with Three Hands kept at the Troyan Monastery; the reverse shows the monastery complex with the inscriptions ‘ТРОЯНСКИ МАНАСТИР’ and ‘УСПЕНИЕ БОГОРОДИЧНО’ (Assumption of the Virgin).
Sources: BNB coin page · BNB press release · BNB register and prices
