Talk:Bulgarian lev

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[edit] size

How big are these bills? (What size money belt do you need)?

The 20 leva bill (the most common) is 131 mm long, smaller denominations are smaller. Preslav 10:54, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BGN and BGL

The ISO 4217 page says that the Bulgarian lev has BGN and BGL as ISO codes. I think that we must mention that there are two variants, and that the BGN is more widely used. What do you think about this?

[edit] additional information abou the bulgarian lev

On July 5, 1999, the government cut three zeroes and 1000 old leva become 1 lev. At the same time a currency board regime was introduced by pegging the lev to the Deutsche Mark (DM) at 1 lev = 1 DM. After the euro was introduced at January 1, 2002, the lev has been tied to the euro at 1 euro = 1,95584 leva. As the currency board regime is an element of the stabilization program, any changes to the peg are unlikely. Furthermore, the peg is projected to remain untill a possible introduction of the euro in the longer term. Bulgaria will become a EU member state on January 1, 2007.