5000 Tolarjev

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.