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100 Tolarjev European Union Entry
| Issuer | Banka Slovenije |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Size | 138 × 69 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse centres on a hand-engraved intaglio portrait of Slovenian Impressionist painter Rihard Jakopič in right-facing profile, with a silhouette vignette filled with microwriting completing the composition. To the left of the portrait, a painter's palette and two brushes appear as the secondary motif, alongside a special commemorative gold overprint reading "2004" vertically, with the final digit progressively transformed across five stages into a five-pointed star — marking Slovenia's accession to the European Union. The watermark reproduces the face of Rihard Jakopič. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Slovenia issued this commemorative 100 Tolarjev in 2003 to mark the country's accession negotiations with the European Union, roughly two years before formal entry in May 2004. It was not a circulating replacement for the standard P#15 series but a deliberately limited commemorative issue, and Banka Slovenije was careful to time it ahead of the actual accession — a political gesture as much as a monetary one.
The engraver trio of Licul, Kosovelj, and Španzel worked across much of the Tolar series, making their shared credit here unremarkable in itself. What matters is that this note had a short institutional lifespan: Slovenia adopted the euro on 1 January 2007, retiring the entire Tolar series after just over fifteen years of circulation.