site.btaNew Bulgarian Euro Coins Start Travelling Across Euro Area - Lagarde

"One month until Bulgaria joins the euro and the new Bulgarian coins start travelling across the euro area!" European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.

Starter kits of euro coins denominations with a Bulgarian national side, sealed in a plastic sachet, went on sale here as from Monday. Natural persons can obtain up to two kits from the Bulgarian National Bank and the commercial banks. The price of a kit is BGN 20, equivalent to EUR 10.23. It contains 42 coins of all eight euro coin denominations: two EUR 2, two EUR 1, four EUR 0.50, five EUR 0.20, seven EUR 0.10, six EUR 0.05, seven EUR 0.02, and nine EUR 0.01.   

A larger starter kit is available for retailers, from commercial banks only. It consists of 420 euro coins of all denominations (twenty EUR 2, twenty EUR 1, forty EUR 0.50, fifty EUR 0.20, seventy EUR 0.10, sixty EUR 0.05, seventy EUR 0.02, and ninety EUR 0.01. The aggregate value of this kit is EUR 102.30, and its selling price is BGN 200.

The euro will be officially introduced as legal tender in Bulgaria on January 1, 2026.