Which European country's currency is the lev?
Bulgarian lev April 2005, when the country's EU accession treaty was signed, the BNB issued a commemorative coin with the face value of 1.95583 leva. Bulgarian lev The lev (, plural: / , ) is the currency of Bulgaria. It is divided in 100 "stotinki" (, singular: , ). In archaic Bulgarian the word "lev" meant "lion", a word which in the modern language became "lăv" (IPA: ) (in Bulgarian: лъв). Stotinka comes from the word "sto" (сто) - a hundred. The lev was introduced as Bulgaria's currency in 1881 with a value equal to the French franc. The gold standard was
European Currency Unit A common theme on the coins was usually celebrating European unity, such as celebrating membership of the European Union. In 1989, the government of the Netherlands issued a series of ECU coins from ₠2½ to ₠200, which could be spent in shops in The Hague, during the European Capital of Culture festival. Gibraltar issued commemorative coins from 1993 through 1996. European Currency Unit The European Currency Unit (₠ or ECU, ) was a basket of the currencies of the European Community member states, used as the unit of account of the European Community before being replaced by the euro on