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50 Stotinov
| Issuer | Bank of Slovenia |
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| Year | 1992-2006 |
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| Weight | 0.85 g |
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| Obverse description | Central to the obverse is a raised square panel into which the numeral '50' is incused. The legend 'REPUBLIKA SLOVENIJA' arcs along the left periphery of the field, while the denomination in words 'PETDESET STOTINOV' runs along the right periphery, with the year of issue positioned below it. The overall design is spare and geometric, conveying the denomination through both numeral and text in the Slovenian language. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIKA SLOVENIJA PETDESET STOTINOV 50 1993 (Translation: Republic of Slovenia Fifty Stotinov 50 1993) |
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Slovenia's tolar coinage was introduced in October 1991, just months after the country's declaration of independence and the brief Ten-Day War with Yugoslav federal forces. The aluminum-magnesium alloy chosen for the lowest denominations was a pragmatic response to the new state's limited monetary infrastructure — lightweight, cheap to produce, and fast to deploy through a mint relationship with the Kremnická mincovňa in Slovakia, as Slovenia had no domestic mint of its own.
The series ran until Slovenia's euro adoption on 1 January 2007, at which point all tolar coinage was demonetized simultaneously.