A coin for Evlogi and Hristo Georgiev, the benefactors of Sofia University
A coin for Evlogi and Hristo Georgiev, the benefactors of Sofia University: mintage 3,000, issue price 78 leva. On sale from 3 June 2019.
From 3 June 2019, the BNB’s cash desks sell a new coin: A coin for Evlogi and Hristo Georgiev, the benefactors of Sofia University.
The brothers Evlogi and Hristo Georgiev were merchants and bankers from Karlovo who built their business in Bucharest. Their donation paid for the main building of Sofia University, whose façade still carries their statues.
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)
