10 Stotinki - Ferdinand I Piedfort

Piedforts — coins struck at double or triple the normal planchet thickness — were produced almost exclusively for official presentation purposes, never entering circulation. Bulgaria's early piedfort issues from 1888 coincide with the country's first years of full coinage sovereignty following the 1878 liberation from Ottoman rule, when the newly established state was building its monetary infrastructure essentially from scratch under Prince Ferdinand I, who had only taken the throne in 1887 after the forced abdication of Alexander of Battenberg.

KM#P2 is among the earliest Bulgarian piedfort records, making surviving examples exceptionally rare. Most known specimens trace back to official mint archives or diplomatic presentations.