The tolar was the currency of Slovenia from 1991 until the introduction of the euro on 31 December 2006. It was subdivided into 100 stotinov. The ISO 4217 currency code for the Slovenian tolar was SIT.
The name tolar comes from Thaler, and is cognate with dollar.
As Slovene is one of the few languages with a grammatical dual, the correct inflections of the word "tolar" are 2 tolarja for 2 SIT, but tolarji for 3 or 4 SIT. For 5 SIT or more, the wo...
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The tolar was the currency of Slovenia from 1991 until the introduction of the euro on 31 December 2006. It was subdivided into 100 stotinov. The ISO 4217 currency code for the Slovenian tolar was SIT.
The name tolar comes from Thaler, and is cognate with dollar.
As Slovene is one of the few languages with a grammatical dual, the correct inflections of the word "tolar" are 2 tolarja for 2 SIT, but tolarji for 3 or 4 SIT. For 5 SIT or more, the word tolarjev, genitive plural of tolar, is used.
The tolar was introduced on 8 October 1991. It replaced the 1990 (Convertible) version of Yugoslav dinar at parity. On 28 June 2004, the tolar was pegged against the euro in the ERM II, the European Union exchange rate mechanism. All recalled banknotes can be exchanged at the central bank for current issue.
On 1 January 2007, the tolar was supplanted by the euro. Slovenia issues its own euro coins, like all other nations in the Eurozone.
The timescale for conversion from the tolar to the euro...
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