10 stotinki 1881
Bulgarian 20 stotinok 1912
Stotenka - Bulgarian loose change , one-hundredth part of the left . The first stotinki were minted in 1881.
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Coin Description
Since 1999, coins of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 stotinok have been in circulation.
| Denomination | Diameter, mm | Mass, g | Front side | Downside | Gurt | Metal | Year of issue | Front image | Back side image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one | sixteen | 1.8 | The number "1", below - the year of coinage, the inscription in the bottom along the arc is in capital letters "STOTINKA", at the top along the arc - 12 stars of the European Union. | Madara horseman hitting a lion; above the arc - the inscription in capital letters "BULGARIA". | smooth | Cu-Al-Ni | 1999 | ||
| Steel with electroplated coating | 2000, 2002 | ||||||||
| 2 | 18 | 2.5 | The number “2”, below is the year of coinage, the inscription is in the bottom of the arc in capital letters “STOTINKI”, at the top in the arc - 12 stars of the European Union. | Cu-Al-Ni | 1999 | ||||
| Steel with electroplated coating | 2000, 2002 | ||||||||
| five | 22 | 3.5 | The number "5", below - the year of coinage, the inscription in the bottom along the arc in capital letters "STOTINKI", at the top along the arc - 12 stars of the European Union. | Cu-Al-Ni | 1999 | ||||
| Steel with electroplated coating | 2000, 2002 | ||||||||
| ten | 18.5 | 3.0 | The number “10”, below is the year of engraving, at the bottom in an arc the inscription in capital letters “STOTINKI”, at the top in an arc - 12 stars of the European Union. | ribbed | Cu-Ni-Zn | 1999, 2002 | |||
| 20 | 20.5 | 4.0 | The number “20”, below is the year of engraving, at the bottom in an arc the inscription in capital letters “STOTINKI”, at the top in an arc - 12 stars of the European Union. | Cu-Ni-Zn | 1999, 2002 | ||||
| 50 | 22.5 | 4.9 | The number “50”, below is the year of engraving, at the bottom in an arc the inscription in capital letters “STOTINKI”, at the top in an arc - 12 stars of the European Union. | Cu-Ni-Zn | 1999, 2002 |
Description of commemorative coins
| Denomination | Diameter, mm | Mass, g | Diameter, mm | Metal | Gurt | Downside |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 22.5 | five | 1.7 | Cu-Al-Ni | ribbed | The number “50”, below is the year of engraving, at the bottom in an arc the inscription in capital letters “STOTINKI”, at the top in an arc - 12 stars of the European Union |
| Title | Front side | Year of issue | Circulation | Design | Image coins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria’s entry into NATO in 2004 | NATO building in Brussels, towards which a stylized Bulgarian lion is heading. Inscriptions in a semicircle: above “Bulgaria”, below - “In NATO 2004” | 2004 | 1,000,000 | Todor Vardzhiev | |
| Murals from the Thracian tomb of Kazanlak | The image of the scene from the frescoes in the Thracian tomb of Kazanlak (IV - III centuries. BC). Along the edge of the coin are the 12 stars of the European Union and the EU abbreviation EU, on the upper left is the inscription: “Bulgaria”, separated from the rest of the inscription by a rose. | 2005 | 500,000 | Bogomil Nikolov, Peter Stoykov, Vladimir Yosifov | |
| Bulgaria's accession to the EU in 2007 | In the center - an open ancient Bulgarian book on a column from the capital of the First Bulgarian Kingdom - the city of Preslav. Along the edge of the coin of 12 stars of the European Union and the inscription "Bulgaria in the EU" | 2007 | 500,000 |
Interesting Facts
In the Soviet Union, until the end of the 1980s, it was often possible to find coins of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria in circulation because of the similarity with Soviet kopeks of that time [1] , moreover, coin acceptors of pay phones [2] and water [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Bulgarian stotinki coins circulated freely in the USSR (inaccessible link) . The appeal date is July 14, 2009. Archived May 22, 2013.
- ↑ see for example 2 stotinki 1989 and 2 kopecks 1988
- ↑ see for example 1 stotinka 1988 and a penny 1990