Tolar

The tolar has been the currency of Slovenia since October 1991. It is divided into 100 stotins.

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The ISO 4217 currency code for the Slovenian tolar is SIT.

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The name tolar comes from the Thaler, a silver coin first minted in 1518 in Joachimsthal, Bohemia, from which the English word dollar is derived.

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On 28 June 2004 the tolar was pegged against the euro in the ERM II http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/date/2004/html/pr040627.en.html, the EU's exchange rate mechanism.

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Currency: :For current exchange rates, see Exchange links....

1991: 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar....

Thaler: The Thaler was a silver coin used throughout Europe for almost four hundred years. Its name lives on in various currencies as the dollar or tolar....