Khan Omurtag joins the Medieval Bulgarian Rulers series, with partial gilding
Khan Omurtag joins the Medieval Bulgarian Rulers series, with partial gilding: mintage 3,000, issue price 96 leva. On sale from 8 November 2021.
On 5 November 2021 the BNB announced a new coin: Khan Omurtag joins the Medieval Bulgarian Rulers series, with partial gilding. It is on sale from 8 November 2021.
Khan Omurtag ruled from 814 to 831. He is remembered for the thirty-year peace with Byzantium and for his building works at Pliska and along the Danube, recorded in stone inscriptions.
The coin has a face value of 10 levs and is struck in Ag 925/1000, 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 Evgeniya Tsankova and Orlin Ivanov.
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)
