Bulgaria 1992 100 leva KM-212
This specimen was lot 73265 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2022), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "BULGARIA. 100 Leva, 1992. Sofia Mint. PCGS PROOF-69 Deep Cameo. Commemorating the Radetsky Steam Liner. This precise modern commemorative has much in the way to offer, with beautiful cameo contrast and nary a hint of tone, haze, nor spot."
Wikipedia comments, "The Radetzky (Bulgarian: „Радецки“, „Radetski“) was an Austro-Hungarian passenger steamship built in 1851 in the shipyard in Óbuda, Hungary, and used for regular services on the Danube. It is most notable as part of the history of Bulgaria as the ship which revolutionary and poet Hristo Botev and his band bloodlessly hijacked and used to reach Kozloduy, Bulgaria." This incident occurred in 1876.
Recorded mintage: 28,765.
Specification: 23.23 g, 0.925 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-212.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The February 2022 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients & World Coins, Featuring Selections from the Kings Norton Mint Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
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