A 2-leva copper coin for the 125th anniversary of Geo Milev’s birth
A 2-leva copper coin for the 125th anniversary of Geo Milev’s birth: mintage 3,000, issue price 24 leva. On sale from 6 January 2020.
From 6 January 2020, the BNB’s cash desks sell a new coin: A 2-leva copper coin for the 125th anniversary of Geo Milev’s birth.
Geo Milev (1895–1925), born in what is today Radnevo, was a poet, translator and publisher and a leading figure of Bulgarian modernism. His poem “September” is among the best-known works of 20th-century Bulgarian poetry.
The coin has a face value of 2 levs and is struck in Cu 999/1000, weighing 16.40 g with a diameter of 34.20 mm. Quality: proof, mint state; mintage: 3,000. It was minted by the Bulgarian Mint to a design by Evgeniya Tsankova and Orlin Ivanov.
The issue price is 24 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)
