The BNB marks 150 years of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences with a 10-leva coin
The BNB marks 150 years of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences with a 10-leva coin: mintage 3,000, issue price 78 leva. On sale from 16 September 2019.
On 13 September 2019 the BNB announced a new coin: The BNB marks 150 years of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences with a 10-leva coin. It is on sale from 16 September 2019.
The Academy traces its origins to the Bulgarian Literary Society, founded in 1869 in Brăila, Romania. It later moved to Sofia and grew into the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The coin has a face value of 10 levs and is struck in Ag 999/1000, weighing 23.33 g with a diameter of 38.61 mm. Quality: proof, mint state; mintage: 3,000. It was minted by the Bulgarian Mint to a design by Plamen Chernev and Preslav Chernev.
The issue price is 78 leva. The coins are sold at the BNB cash desks in Sofia and at branches of DSK Bank, First Investment Bank, Raiffeisenbank (Bulgaria) and Texim Bank. For the first days of the sale each customer may buy up to two coins from the BNB; the limit then falls away.
Full details are in the BulgarianCoins catalogue below; the official announcement is on the BNB website.
Sources: BNB press release · BNB press release (English)
