Bulgaria and the Euro [решено]

As Bulgaria will officially use the euro starting next year, I propose to add the euro as a currency of Bulgaria, so I can properly give this N#523230 its proper currency.

 Thanks 

Bulgaria will replace the Lev with the Euro on 1 January 2026.

Aidan.

Why is there a starter pack separate from the circulation issues? Make a set ‘Starter Pack’ and combine the two lines.

The starter pack is to familiarize people with the new coins.These coins will be in circulation from 1.01.2026 and will be legal tender.That is, these are circulation coins.

There is no difference between the coins from the starter pack and the coins that will be put into circulation from 1.01.2026.

@SStefanov starter pack should be added as a set via set feature link, then the lines should be merged.

Currency is available now :)

Shouldn’t the currency show as Euro (2026-date), as Bulgaria didn’t enter the eurozone in 2002 (as shown currently)? Is there a future date technical limitation or can this be edited now? Looking at other eurozone countries, e.g. Cyprus N#100246, fantasy coins appear to be excluded from the starting date calculation despite being shown within the currency. 

Also a couple of questions on the current lev being demonetised in the way that the Deutsche Mark was at the end of 2001: While the euro is introduced on 01.01.2026, the lev is still legal tender until the end of January in parallel. Which year would then count as the final year for the lev? Which date would count as the demonetisation date? The current (placeholder?) entries saying 01.01.2027 (e.g. N#2375) appear to me to be plain wrong either way.

Finally, in the current translation of the obverse lettering “STOTINKI”/“STOTINKA” is actually the transliteration. Following the example on Greek coins (e.g. N#116), am I correct in assuming that “CENTS”/“CENT” would be correct?

Thank you in advance!

There is only one Euro currency for the whole Eurozone and the dates are (currently) universal.

There are a couple of discussions on the forum what is meant by demonetisation and their is no consensus.
 

We now have ‘Date of first issue’ so we probably also should have ‘Date of end of issue’ or similarly named thing (Withdrawn from circulation etc.). Because the exchange value is linked to the demonetisation status it should be the the last date on that you could exchange the currency for new one even if they are no longer functioning as money (being circulated and paying for goods and services).

Example: the German Mark was pulled from circulation (no longer issued by Banks) on the 01.01.2002 but can be exchanged at the Bundesbank for Euro indefinitely … so 1 DM still holds at least a value of 0.51 € (currently not shown on the catalog page).

Changed name to 2026, it should be like that.

The 2002 universal date would make sense, except it isn’t currently universal: Croatian euro starts in 2023 N#373926, Cyprus euro above starts in 2008 and so on… 

The exact same indefinite exchange period and rate will be the case for the current lev, this is why I picked the example. I see the end of January 2026 as the correct date in this case and keeping the exchange rate on the catalog page indefinitely sounds reasonable to me in such situations, so I would agree with having another distinct date.

By the way, I have sent a pending request to move the euro cent to its proper currency.

dear friends,

I'll check the requests. thanks

SStefanov

dear friends,

 

I'll check the requests. thanks

My request regarding the currency has been validated earlier.

thank you for letting me know, nonetheless, sorry for the delay. Happy upcoming Holidays.

And maybe Fourth lev (1999-date) must be changed to Fourth lev (1999-2025), don't you think?

most likely it would be Fourth lev (1999-2026). They are talking about keeping both currencies for one year, but this could change.

SStefanov

most likely it would be Fourth lev (1999-2026). They are talking about keeping both currencies for one year, but this could change.

@SStefanov  this is wrong. Nobody is talking about this and the 01.01.2027 demonetisation date for the fourth lev is therefore wrong in any case. Please see my previous post in this thread on the topic for the timeline. 

“1 February 2026

Euro banknotes and coins become the sole legal tender.” I can only see an argument on whether the demonetisation date on Numista should be the end of 2025 or the end of January 2026. I find sticking to already established practices for euro introduction dates preferable and as such the fourth lev being set to -2025 (see German mark). 

Here is one of my sources: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/changeover/bulgaria/html/index.en.html

If needed, I can provide more.

The current Lev should be indicated as (Lev - 1999 - 2025).

The dates alone should be sufficient, as we shouldn't indicate which Lev is which - as all 4 currencies are the same - Lev.

Please add in the Leva to Euro rate at which it has been fixed.

Aidan.