5 Tolarjev Žiga Zois

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.