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| Issuer | Bank of Slovenia |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIKA SLOVENIJA 20000 TOLARJEV 2002 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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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.