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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 2440852, member: 29751&quot;]Won two coins in last night&#039;s Heritage auction.&nbsp; Nothing of great value, but designs I quite like. </p><p><br /></p><p>====================</p><p><br /></p><p>The <b>1943 Bulgaria 5 Leva</b> is surprisingly hard to find in UNC given the mintage was 36,000,000 coins!&nbsp; Despite the description on the coin of it being &quot;Krum&quot; on horseback and the date given of 814 -- this is actually a rendition of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madara_Rider" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madara_Rider" rel="nofollow">Madara Rider rock relief</a>.&nbsp; Research and further study of the design since the 1940s has suggested that it is not Krum at all, but that the rock relief dates to about a century before Krum&#039;s rule around the year 700 and ruler Tervel.</p><p><br /></p><p>Been looking for this one for a very long time for my horses coin set.&nbsp; This one has some nice toning also, which is quite unusual for a nickel-clad steel coin.&nbsp; This is horse-coin #264 in my set. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb364/brg5658/Photography-6/1943_Bulgaria_5Leva_PCGS_MS64_trueview_zpso5adojji.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>====================</p><p><br /></p><p>The <b>1917 Serbia 20 Para</b> is a lovely design, and I fell in love with the high relief of the obverse eagle design.&nbsp; This is a copper-nickel composition coin, with a mintage of 5 million.&nbsp; Usually comes circulated, but it is available in gem UNC if one is patient. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb364/brg5658/Photography-6/1917_Serbia_20Para_PCGS_MS65_trueview_zpszcyjnhjk.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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