The National Ethnographic Museum in Sofia hosts a seminar on "Forgeries and counterfeiting of ancient coins and objects in Bulgaria". The lecturers - Prof. Ilya Prokopov and Prof. Dilyana Boteva, will present periods of the..
2,940 ancient coins were intercepted at the Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint and saved from smuggling on 12 June 2018 during a customs inspection of a truck driven by a Turkish citizen entering Bulgaria from Turkey. The bronze coins are a collective..
Criminologists have apprehended a man near Aytos in Southeastern Bulgaria as he was preparing to smuggle more than 350 ancient coins, dating to the Roman, Ancient Greek and Byzantine period, out of the country. The estimated value of the deal..
