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20 000 Tolarjev Soccer World Championship
| Issuer | Bank of Slovenia |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a stylized silhouette of a football player in dynamic mid-kick pose, positioned to the left of centre, with a football at his feet. To the right, a sunburst motif of radiating lines fills the field, suggesting motion and energy. The curved legend 'SVETOVNO PRVENSTVO V NOGOMETU' arcs around the left and lower periphery of the coin, and the date '2002' appears in the upper right field, all rendered in raised Latin lettering against a polished ground. |
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Slovenia qualified for the 2002 FIFA World Cup — held jointly in South Korea and Japan — in dramatic fashion, eliminating Romania in a playoff on away goals. It was the country's first-ever World Cup appearance, coming just eleven years after independence. The tournament run ended in the group stage, but the qualification alone was sufficient cause for a commemorative issue.
The .900 fine gold specification places this squarely in a Slovenian commemorative tradition that favored lower-purity gold over the .999 standard more common elsewhere in Europe at the time.