According to a press release dated 22 May 2020, the Bulgarian National Bank planned to introduce a revised 10-lev note (B236a) on 12 June 2020. Courtesy of Ivan Bogdanov (bonistics.org).Read More…
According to a press release dated 28 February 2020, the Bulgarian National Bank introduced a revised 20-lev note (B237a) on 20 March 2020. Courtesy of Thomas Augustsson.Read More…
According to a press release dated 28 February 2020, the Bulgarian National Bank intends to introduce the revised 20-lev note (B237a) on 20 March 2020. Courtesy of Mohammad Raihan.Read More…
According to a press release dated 18 October 2019, on 1 November 2019 the Bulgarian National Bank planned to introduce a new 50-lev note (B238) like the preceding issues, but with enhanced security features and tactile marks for the visually impaired. Courtesy of Andrian Chekanov, Robert Mol, and bgbgbg2008-2008 onRead More…
The Bulgaria chapter of The Banknote Book is now available for individual sale and as a free download to subscribers. It’s also available in print from Lulu. This 65-page catalog covers notes issued by the Bulgarian National Bank from 1885 to present, and the Thrace Interallied Administration in 1919. RevisedRead More…
, This new 100-lev note is the first denomination in a new series the preceding issues, but with new security features, including the denomination in SPARK, a revised holographic stripe, improved watermark, and diagonal lines at left/right front as a tactile feature for the sight-impaired. Preceding issues will continue toRead More…
According to a press release, Christoph Gärtner auction 35 contains more than 3,000 banknote lots from all over the world, and all are now online on Sixbid.Among them many rarities from Europe with rarely seen specimen banknotes including a comprehensive collection of Bulgaria will be offered. “A special focus onRead More…
According to a press release dated 22 October 2015, the Bulgarian National Bank has announced that beginning 7 December 2015, its current 2-lev banknote (P115) will be replaced with a circulation bi-metallic coin of the same denomination. The existing 2-lev notes will remain legal tender circulating in parallel with theRead More…
According to an article on Novinite.com dated 1 September 2014, the Bulgarian National Bank intends to replace the 2-leva banknote (P115) with a coin starting in 2015. The notes will remain legal tender, but will be withdrawn from circulation as they wear out.Read More…
According to a Bulgarian National Bank press release dated 17 October 2013, “As a consequence of the specifics of the currency circulation and the rise in the price levels it is very likely that over the next years the banknote of BGN 2 [US$1.40; P115] would have to be replacedRead More…