The currency unit in the Republic of Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Lev /plural form – leva, levs/ or BGN.
1 lev = 100 stotinki
Because of the currency board, the rate EUR/BGN is pegged: EUR 1 = BGN 1.95583

The rate BGN/other currencies are different and change every day.
The Bulgarian National Bank sets the course of the other currencies for every working day.

There are following Bulgarian bank-notes in circulation in Bulgaria:

The obverse of the banknote shows a 1789 icon depicting of Saint Ivan Rilski from the Uspenie Bogorodichno /Assumption of Our Lady/ Church in the Pchelino Postnica /Hermitage/ near the Rila Monastery. Saint Ivan Rilski /876 – 946/ Bulgaria adopted Christianity as a national religion in AC 864, and Ivan of Rila preached Christ's doctrine in mediaeval Bulgaria. Canonised soon after his death, he became patron of the monastery, which emerged on the spot where he ended his earthly span.

Today the Rila Monastery, over a thousand years old, houses the Saint's relics. The reverse of the banknote shows the main Monastery church set off by the cloister's open-air walkways.
Background colour - red.
Paper – 100 % cotton, in orange tones.

Dimensions - 112 x 60 mm.

An engraving of Pagisios of Chiliandar is the major item on the obverse side. The background depicts the Zografou Monastery on Mount Athos, the Monastery Seal, and the interior of Pagisios' monastic cell.

Pagisios of Chiliandar /1722 – 1773/, the man who kindled the spark of the Bulgarian National Revival, served in Holy Orders at the monastery of Chiliandar on Mount Athos. He authored the "Historiae Sclavo-Bulgaricus": the first work of modern Bulgarian letters and harbinger of Bulgarians' spiritual emancipation and national reawakening.

The reverse side shows a facsimile of the Zografou draft of the "Historiae Sclavo-Bulgaricus" with a list of Bulgarian rulers. This is overprinted with impressions of Tsar Kalogiannis Ring Seal and three seals with the images of Bulgarian Sovereigns Mihail Shishman, Svetoslav Terter and Tsar Ivan Asen II. The right side shows Hristofor Zhefarovich's lion rampant with the names of Bulgarian rulers from the First and Second Empires overprinted in microscopic lettering, Bottom right appears Bulgaria's Coat of Arms with three lions couchant, as published in the Gruenberg Heraldic Compendium of 1483.
Background colour - violet.
Paper – 100 % cotton, in blue tones.
Dimensions - 116 x 64 mm.