Catalog
5 Tolarjev Žiga Zois
| Issuer | Bank of Slovenia |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Thickness | 1.7 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 1997 5 TOLARJEV REPUBLIKA SLOVENIJA (Translation: 1997 5 Tolarjev Republic of Slovenia) |
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| Mintage | 1997 - of which 1000 in sets - 201,000 1997 - Proof (in sets only) - 500 |
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Žiga Zois (1747–1819) was a Carniolan baron and mineralogist whose Ljubljana salon functioned as the organizing center of Slovenian Enlightenment thought — Vodnik, Kopitar, and Linhart all moved within his orbit. Slovenia's decision to populate its pre-euro coinage with such figures was a deliberate act of cultural self-definition for a state that had existed independently for less than a decade when this coin was struck.