Kukeri: the first coin in the Bulgarian Customs and Traditions series
Kukeri: mintage 3,000, issue price 78 leva. On sale from 17 February 2020.
On 14 February 2020 the BNB announced a new coin: Kukeri. It is on sale from 17 February 2020.
Kukeri games are a winter custom in which masked men wearing heavy bells drive away evil and call for a fertile year; the best-known event today is the Surva festival in Pernik. With this coin the BNB opened its Bulgarian Customs and Traditions series.
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 Vanya Dimitrova-Hadjigaeva.
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)
