Stoyanka Mutafova on a copper coin: 100 years since the great comic actress was born
Stoyanka Mutafova on a copper coin: mintage 4,000, issue price 30 leva. On sale from 24 January 2022.
On 21 January 2022 the BNB announced a new coin: Stoyanka Mutafova on a copper coin. It is on sale from 24 January 2022.
Stoyanka Mutafova (1922–2019) was one of Bulgaria’s best-loved actresses and a long-time star of the Satirical Theatre, still performing past the age of ninety. The coin came out in her centenary year.
The coin has a face value of 2 levs and is struck in Cu 999/1000, weighing 16.4 g with a diameter of 34.2 mm. Quality: proof, mint state; mintage: 4,000. It was minted by the Bulgarian Mint to a design by Elena Todorova and Todor Todorov.
Reverse: a portrait of Stoyanka Mutafova and a two-line text ‘100 ГОДИНИ ОТ РОЖДЕНИЕТО НА СТОЯНКА МУТАФОВА’ (100 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF STOYANKA MUTAFOVA) inscribed in circumference on the right.
The issue price is 30 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)
