Slovenia CurrencySince January 1th 2007 the official slovenia currency is Euro and Cent. Get here the most important facts about the actual and the former slovenia currecies. 239,64 tolar for 1 EuroThe new slovenia currency was introduced with an official exchange rate of 239,64 tolar for one euro. As almost all countries Slovenia designed its own euro coins, too.coin designs with typical slovenian culture elementsSo there is a stork on the one cent coin. The two cent coin shows the Prince´s stone and there is the picture "Sejalec" of Grohar, showing a man sowing thirteen stars, on the five cent coin. Plecniks picture of the never built parliament is mapped on the ten cent coin.There are two Lipizzaner horses on the twenty cent coin and the highest slovenian mountain Triglav on the fifty cent coin. The one euro coin is designed with the picture of Trubar, the writer of the first book in slovenian language and the picture of the slovenian poet Preseren with the first words of the national anthem adorns the two euro coin. Tolar and Stotin after separation in 1991After the separation of the former Republik of Yugoslavia and becoming an independent country in 1991, the slovenian currency changed from the yugoslavian Dinar to Tolar and Stotinov, with SIT as slovenia currency code. The name tolar is the translation of the word thaler and was based on the austrian influenced history of Slovenia. One tolar comformed to 100 stotinov.According to the slovenian language the correct grammatical modulation is one tolar, two tolarja, tolarji for 3 and 4 and tolarjev for more than 5. There was paper money in 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 5000 and 10.000 tolarjev and coins in 10, 20 and 50 stotinov and 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 tolarjev. While the banknotes featured famous persons of the slovenian politics, history and society, the coins shaped pictures of animals living in Slovenia. back from "this" page to Slovenia Currency
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