100 Euros Anniversary of Independence

Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, though ten days of armed conflict with the Yugoslav People's Army followed before a ceasefire brokered under EU pressure took hold. The so-called Ten-Day War resulted in fewer than a hundred fatalities — unusually low for a secession conflict — largely because the JNA had no strategic appetite for a prolonged campaign in the country's northwest.

KM#103 was issued for the twentieth anniversary of that declaration. Mintage figures for Slovenian gold commemoratives of this period were typically in the low hundreds, keeping secondary market availability thin.