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10 Leva 15th Winter Olympic Games
| Issuer | Bulgarian National Bank |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Value | 10 Leva (10 BGL) |
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| Obverse lettering | НАРОДНА РЕПУБЛИКА БЪЛГАРИЯ (Translation: The People's Republic of Bulgaria) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bulgaria issued this coin ahead of the 1988 Calgary Winter Games as part of a broader Eastern Bloc pattern of using Olympic commemoratives to generate hard currency from Western collectors — the actual domestic circulation of these pieces was negligible. The .640 fineness is notably low for a silver commemorative of this period, a deliberate cost-reduction choice that placed it below the .925 or .900 standard used by most contemporary Western mints issuing similar Olympic series.