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Country: Bulgaria, Republic of Bulgaria - state, occupying 22% of the space of the Balkan Peninsula.
Capital: Sofia
The country's currency: the Bulgarian Lev of 100 stotinki.
Numeric code: 975
Letter code BGN
At the moment the catalog Bulgaria coins in circulation, includes 1999 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 stotinki, a corresponding denomination, and the coin 1 Lev, replaced in 2002, a similar bill.
Coin values over time remained virtually unchanged, but constantly, mainly with changes in the political and economic situation in the region, they found the use of different materials and the symbolism of banknotes. The price of coins of Bulgaria from different periods, respectively, are quite different.
Original coins (1881-1884 g) were made of bronze, with a nominal value of 50 cents or more, of silver. In 1894 it came into use 10 and 20 gold leva. The release of silver coins has been discontinued since 1916 to replace them gradually (in the period from 1916 to 1940) introduced copper-nicelife, aluminum and iron.
Interestingly, it was discovered the world's largest treasure of coins – Dubnenskoe. Lands keep many treasures, in which the value of the coins Bulgaria even assess is difficult, because the origin and age of the banknotes is too different.
The first Bulgarian coins were minted in the XIII century during the reign of Tsar Ivan-Acenia. Almost nothing modern banknotes with their counterparts from the Medieval period have not. In those days, the coins required to present a symbolic image of a king and his name. Before independence the country is also free to go to the Turkish currency, and stamps. Leo in the Second world war was equal to the French franc. The course left Bulgaria in 1999 were equal to the rate of the German mark. With the introduction of the Euro, to buy coins of Bulgaria can be had for the price of 1.95583 BGN for 1 Euro.
