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5000 Tolarjev
| Issuer | Bank of Slovenia |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Size | 150 × 73 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIKA SLOVENIJA 5000 PET TISOČ (Translation: Republic of Slovenia / Five Thousand) |
| Reverse description | The large numeral 5000 is centred against a multicolour guilloche underprint, surmounted by the inscription REPUBLIKA SLOVENIJA. A vignette of the Prince's Stone (Knežji kamen / Fürstenstein), the early medieval coronation seat of the Carinthian dukes, occupies the lower left corner. |
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Slovenia's transition currency, the tolar, was introduced in October 1991 following independence from Yugoslavia — replacing the Yugoslav dinar at par initially, then quickly diverging as the Yugoslav economy collapsed. This 5000 tolar note arrived in 1992 during a period of real monetary instability, when inflation was running high enough that large-denomination notes were consumed by ordinary transactions within months of issue.
Cetis in Celje has produced Slovenian security documents since well before independence, which made it a natural choice for the new state's first banknote series. Printing domestically rather than contracting abroad was a deliberate signal of institutional capability.