- Gold .999
- Low mintage
Annunciation
2017 · 100 leva · Bulgarian National Bank
Specifications
- Metal
- Gold 999/1000
- Weight
- 8.64 g
- Fine gold content
- 8.63 g (0.2775 oz t)
- Diameter
- 24 mm
- Quality
- Proof, mint state
- Official mintage
- 2,000
- Year of issue
- 2017
- Series
- Bulgarian Iconography
- Designer
- Plamen Chernev and Preslav Chernev
- Minted by
- Bulgarian Mint
- Catalogue no.
- BC-2017-01
- Issue price
- 920.00 лв
- ≈ €470.39 · BNB, 2017
- Market value (asking prices)
- €3,499.00
- 1 listing (asking price) · Balkan Auction, 19 Oct 2026
- Melt value
- €1,028.45
- Au spot €3,706.07/oz · Oct 2026
Market prices – asking prices
Asking prices on Balkan Auction, 19 Oct 2026
- Ungraded coins
- €3,499.00
- median asking price €3,499.00 · 1 listing
Sample listings
- 100 лева 2017 Благовещение€3,499.00
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, 2017)
- €470.39
- Asking price now (median)
- €3,499.00
- Change in value
- €3,028.61
- Total return
- +644%
- Compounded yearly return
- +24.1%a year, over 9.3 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
8/10 · 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get extra points, because much of that silver and gold was melted down and many coins were lost in the wars and withdrawn in 1952.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 the BNB logo and the year ‘1879’ on the strip; ‘БЪЛГАРСКА НАРОДНА БАНКА’ (Bulgarian National Bank), the nominal value ‘100 ЛЕВА’ (100 levs) and the year of issue ‘2017’ inscribed in circumference.
Reverse
The reverse of the coin features a canonical image of Virgin Mary and Archangel Gabriel announcing to her the glad tidings of Immaculate Conception; there is the inscription ‘БЛАГОВЕЩЕНИЕ’ (Annunciation) above it.
Edge & packaging
Flat edge. Issued in a protective capsule with an information leaflet. The BNB advises keeping the capsule closed.
Image: The Boyana Church, Sofia · Todor Bozhinov / Тодор Божинов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
About this coin
Annunciation
A 100 leva gold coin issued by the Bulgarian National Bank in 2017, part of the Bulgarian Iconography series. 2,000 pieces were minted by the Bulgarian Mint, to a design by Plamen Chernev and Preslav Chernev.
Sources: BNB coin page · BNB register and prices · market listing 1
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