A hundred years of the National Academy of Music: a 10-leva silver coin
A hundred years of the National Academy of Music: mintage 3,000, issue price 96 leva. On sale from 21 June 2021.
From 21 June 2021, the BNB’s cash desks sell a new coin: A hundred years of the National Academy of Music.
The Prof. Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia was founded in 1921 as the State Music Academy and is Bulgaria’s oldest music conservatoire.
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 Stoyan Dechev and Martin Yordanov.
Reverse: in center a treble clef staff in the form of stylised bird and on the left of it, the inscription ‘100 ГОДИНИ’ (100 years); in circumference, the inscription ‘НАЦИОНАЛНА МУЗИКАЛНА АКАДЕМИЯ’ (National Academy of Music) and two stylised laurel twigs.
The issue price is 96 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)
