2 Leva - Boris III Essai

Essai pieces from Bulgaria's 1925 coinage reform were struck in Paris, where the Monnaie de Paris produced trial pieces across multiple compositions before the final circulating versions were approved. Boris III had consolidated power following the political chaos of 1923 — a coup, an attempted counter-coup, and a cathedral bombing that nearly killed him — and the new coinage was part of a broader effort to stabilize and modernize the Bulgarian state. This copper-nickel trial was not adopted; the circulating 2 Leva ultimately went out in a different alloy.