Bulgaria 1984 10 leva

Steve Album sale 38, lot 1576

This specimen was lot 1576 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $535.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "BULGARIA: People's Republic, 10 leva, 1984, KM-Pn28, Proba I (pattern) in copper-nickel, XXIII Summer Olympic Games, female gymnast performing with ribbon, only two PCGS examples with a higher grade, PCGS graded Specimen 68." The SCWC records the same mintage for the pattern shown here, KM Pn28, and the so-called regular issue, KM 147. We will let the reader decide what the regime really intended.

Recorded mintage: 2,000 of KM 147 and 2,000 of KM Pn28.

Specification: copper-nickel, reeded edge.

Catalog reference: KM 147 (official issue), KM Pn28 (pattern).

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

Link to:

• 1979 10 leva, Year of the Child
• 1984 10 leva, Winter Olympics
• 1984 10 leva, United Nations International Decade for Women
• 1984 100 leva, International Decade for Women
• Coins and currency dated 1984