Surprise surprise!! :banana: :banana:

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:cheers:

OMG you bought them allready! How much euros is in the pack? You can buy a pack for 3000sit, right?

I plan to save slovenian bills as part of history but I cant find any 50sit bill. DO u know are 50 sit bills still avaliable or did 50sit coin replaced them totally?

It's written on the pack pic.. Read, man, read! ;)

8 × 1 cent
7 × 2 cent
6 × 5 cent
6 × 10 cent
7 × 20 cent
4 × 50 cent
4 × €1
2 × €2

The worth of the coins is €12.52 or 3000.30 SIT. You can buy them at banks for 3000 SIT.

I plan to save slovenian bills as part of history but I cant find any 50sit bill. DO u know are 50 sit bills still avaliable or did 50sit coin replaced them totally?

Nope, they're in circulation. Haven't been reprinted since like 1992, though..

I gots one, though, I gots one! :D

will you save 10.000sit bill also?:lol: I dont now if I will:ohno:

Mhmm, I already did. I have all the bills, I ordered all the 5 SIT commemorative coins (11 of them, got them a couple of days ago), I have all the standard circulation coins plus I ordered the stotin coins.

bolha.com

Where did u orded them?

U bought a package too. :D

There were 4 Italians in front of me in the line in the bank for the packages... Some said they want 10 of them, but 3 was the limit. The clerk said that there were more foreigners buying the sets than Slovenes today... And in the centre of Ljubljana.

Ahaha, nice!

Jest sm kupil 5 paketkov, super! :banana:

Samo nekaj je zanimivega. Ta denar lahko v Avstriji že uporabljaš, pa so Slovenski evri, ki pri nas še niso v uporabi.

^^Ne, niti v Avstriji ga uradno ne smeš, kolikor vem. Uradno bodo postali tile evri veljavni 1. januarja 2007.

V Lubljani so bili razprodani v 3/4 ure! Da se jih dobit v banki Slo. . Drugače imam sem "zbiratelj" papirnatega drobiža SIT. Postali so zelo redki ampak se vse bankovce da še vedno dobit. Kdo ve, kako je pa slučajno s petnimi kunami? So sedaj samo še kovanci, tako kot pri nas?

Petne kune? Kaj pa je to?

Js sm sicer poslal email na BS če bi mi lahko komemorativno izdajo poslali na dom, zdaj čakam na odgovor. Upam, da če ne jih vsaj kaka banka v Gorici prodaja..

Ne vem, če ste kej opazili, ampak na enotni strani so novi nekoliko drugačni. Prej so bile tam odtisnjene razdeljeno samo stare članice EU. No, sedaj je na evrih, tako kot na bankovcih cela Evropa.

Ja, res je, ampak samo delno. Na 1, 2 in 5 centih je še vedno EU15.. Zgleda, da je ECB pozabila, da so tudi tam označili EU leta 2002.. :|

Sedaj pa nakladaš. Na kovančkih pod 10 centov je severna Zemeljska polobla.

Umm.. Poglej dobro. EU15 je poudarjena. ;)

Prav imaš, pardon. :)

thats so cool guys... congrats!

With the euro being implemented soon ... i heard prices in Slovenia have sky-rocketed. !? I guess theres a downside to everything.

With the euro being implemented soon ... i heard prices in Slovenia have sky-rocketed. !? I guess theres a downside to everything.

That's not entirely true... Of course some prices in the retail stores raised, but authorities are doing quite a good job. From 1st March this year all prices are written in both currencies for example and several organizations monitor them. There are also black lists of companies issued. So you can discover that prices of items like pommes frites, rice and lemons raised. But that isn't a general practice. In fact, you can't even connect raising prices with € in most cases.

Of course some prices have raised and some more will. But it's not nearly as critical as it was in other countries that introduced the € 5 years ago (Germany as a prime example). I believe this transition will go smoothly without any bigger price skyrocketing shocks.

With the euro being implemented soon ... i heard prices in Slovenia have sky-rocketed. !? I guess theres a downside to everything.

It's not that bad. Notably more expensive are cinema tickets (20-30%), some parking houses (also in that range) and drinks in few pubs (but not all). Prices in shops stayed relatively the same. It is much better than in Italy in 2002.
Question is, what will happen after 1.1.2007

Even with cinema tickets, it's only in Ljubljana and only because Kolosej has a monopoly there.

Parking tickets won't rise as bad as previous thought thanks to Jankovič's interference and other prices didn't rise more than usual.. Coffee is 20 SIT more expensive here at some bar I frequent, but there were similar raises previous years as well. I just went to get my hair cut today and they raised the price from 3000 SIT to 3200 SIT. Two years ago that price was 2400 SIT. So the rises are not too much out of the ordinary.

Definitely not what Italy witnessed. We're much better prepared, thanks to the bitter experiences of the original 12 members..

Even with cinema tickets, it's only in Ljubljana and only because Kolosej has a monopoly there.

As far as I know, proce of cinema tickets in Celje and Maribor went up for quite a big percent... Not in Ljubljana.

As far as I know, proce of cinema tickets in Celje and Maribor went up for quite a big percent... Not in Ljubljana.

If I remember correctly from the blacklist, while prices in Ljubljana went up like 20%, they only went up around 5-10% in Celje and Maribor..

If I remember correctly from the blacklist, while prices in Ljubljana went up like 20%, they only went up around 5-10% in Celje and Maribor..

You remember incorrectly ;) A ticket in Ljubljana's Kolosej costs 1186 SIT (without discounts), previously it was 1100 SIT. That's about 7 %.

In Celje and Maribor, it costs 1006 SIT. I don't know exact previous price, but I think it costed around 800 SIT. I checked the "black list" - only Maribor and Celje are mentioned in the section above 10 %.

Ooops. My bad, mixed those two up. In LJ and KP the ticket went up by 7%, in MB and CE by 33%.

^^

Officially:

Maribor and Celje: 33% raise

Ljubljana and Koper: 7,8 % raise

EDIT: You were faster, edolen

;)

What I find funny is taht Spar commercial on TV where they are promissing the prices will be the same or lower... And those frozen potatoes were one of the first items to end up on the black list after going up some 100 something %...

As for the "old SIT"... u people really need to let go of old things... U horders, u should watch Life Laundry on BBC Prime sometimes :tongue2:

;)

Congrats and all that..

now the real question, i collect bills from around the world, and i wasnt that interested in our area because shit we change money so fast. but since you guys have switched to Euros that means that the Tolar has gone in to the history books. well i want a part of that history. so far i have been able to get a hold of a few samples.

10 Tolars
20 Tolars
50 Tolars
100 Tolars
200 Tolars
500 Tolars
1000 Tolars

but to finish my collection i need the 5000 and 10000 Tolars bills. so how can I get ahold of these two samples.

i have a feeling that because of their high monatary value and ability to get Euros for them (you can change your Tolars for Euros for a brief time right?) no one is willing to part with them cheaply. so what should i do wait till the switch is finished and market decided the price or do you know where i can get a sample.

thanks guys :cheers:

well u live here in SF... we here have a lot of these foreign currency exchange offices... have u tried those? just give them USD for the amount of tolars you want, ask for specific bills.

i was wondering about that.

did they pull out the Tolars or are they still in circulation

not yet, but very soon. hurry to see if theyre still using tolars.

ill be downtown monday and ill stop by an exchange office..

Hurry, yes... Although I think they probably don't have them anymore. Even Bank of Austria or Bank of Hungary started free exchange of tolars to euros for example.

You're too late, man.. You should've done this before January 1st.. I highly doubt you will be able to get any tolars at exchange offices, they will only accept them, probably.

Otherwise cash payments can be made with tolars until January 14. But the change must be given in euros.

LordMarshall, I found you sth, but I'm not sure, if you can order them as an American, since the company's Norwegian.

http://www.coins-and-banknotes.com/Banknotes-World/World-Banknotes/Slovenia/I-Kobilka-ar-New-2004-U.html
http://www.coins-and-banknotes.com/Banknotes-World/World-Banknotes/Slovenia/I-Cankar-ar-New-2004-U.html

Or, this is better and American - http://www.atsnotes.com/world/w-nz.html

Here - http://www.banknotes.com/ - they don't have them any more.


Btw, you might wanna consider buying 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Hungarian Pengos from 1946:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

thanks Verso the atsnotes looks like it might have a few. yeah i should have done this earlier but like i said my collection interest is outside of our region.

thanks guys :cheers:

btw Verso i got a few Reich Marks with zeros up to high heaven :D

^ Hehe, the mentioned banknote appears to have the highest number ever printed, lol.

well well now, what are they asking for it?

^^ They have dirty intensions...:D Well, it's best to look for yourself - http://www.tomchao.com/hb12.html but it was never issued; the highest ever issued had one zero less.

Surprise surprise!! :banana: :banana:

:cheers:I will like to see will you dance after one year when price in Slovenia rise becouase of the EUR?

Well, so far there have been some price rises, especially in the services sector, but nothing too drastic. Nowhere near the increases Italy and some other countries have seen. I think this is all we're gonna see as well, since there aren't going to be anymore opportunities to secretly increase prices..

A consumer watchdog body in Slovenia says the country's transition to the euro is going smoothly but many people have complained of price rises.

"We've had a lot more complaints since 1 January," said Breda Kutin, head of the Slovenian Consumers' Association.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6234847.stm

Slovenians see price hikes after euro arrival

http://euobserver.com/onm/media/scaled/scaledE2I3cv.jpg

The Slovenian Consumers' Association has warned that a wide range of price increases have been registered across the country, as businesses opened and began trading in euros on Wednesday (3 January) on the first working day of the New Year.

http://euobserver.com/9/23191

^^ i think its nothing to worry about, it's just growing pains, you guys will work right through it ;)

:cheers2:

I was just thinking about how if Bosnia were ever to make it into the EU and if we ever got the Euro as a currency what we would have on the picture...maybe cevapi or burek haha i really dont know. Anyways congratulations to Slovenia on the Euro :)

Daily Telegraph: Dramatican skok cijena u Sloveniji

Daily Telegraph u ponedjeljak izvještava o dramaticnom skoku cijena u slovenskim kaficima i kafanama poslije uvodenja eura prije samo nešto više od sedmicu dana.
Kapucino je poskupio za 28 posto i brojni, posebno mladi, Slovenci poceli da se žale da je euro po?eo da narušava njihov dosada relativno komforan nacin života, javlja doduše euroskeptican, Daily Telegraph.

What I'd call drammatical was the price rise in Italy 5 years ago, where things went up from for example 4000 LIT (~2€) to 4 € (~8000 LIT), basically what many shops did was that they just removed the zeroes and thus increased the price by 50%. Iono, but if a morning "Kapučino" is like 10c more expensive I wouldn't make such a big fuss about it as if i wanted to buy some Jeans for double their price. Very vaguely said, of course.

A 28% rise in the price of coffee is more of an exception than the norm..

http://euobserver.com/9/23191A recent EU survey showed two-thirds of Slovenes are happy to adopt the new currency, seeing it as a final step in becoming a part of the European mainstream.I'd call entering the Schengen Area the final step (and presiding the EU shortly after that).

^^Yah, Schengen is the final step. On December 1, 2007! :banana:

From today, the euro is the only legal currency in Slovenia, which makes the tolar history. The Slovenian tolar (SIT), which was divided into 100 stotins, was the currency from October 8, 1991, when it replaced the Yugoslav dinar, to January 14, 2007; however from January 1, 2007, when the euro was introduced, the paybacks were allowed only in euros. The exchange rate was set by 239.64 tolars for 1 euro.


Tolar banknotes:

http://img307.imageshack.us/img307/1849/10bankovecdp2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img307.imageshack.us/img307/485/20bankovecxa1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/2015/50bankovecdt7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/9716/100eb7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/2120/200ed9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/5130/500rd6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4897/1000jo0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img307.imageshack.us/img307/9066/5000nt7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/542/10000bf3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Tolar coins:

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http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/9523/1iw1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img307.imageshack.us/img307/7012/2ey1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img307.imageshack.us/img307/6914/5zt6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/116/10kovanecwr7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img307.imageshack.us/img307/3938/20kovanechq0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/8375/50kovanecmh2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Tolar banknotes between October 8, 1991 and September 1992 (coupons - SLT):

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/4109/bon1gu4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/9614/bon2qt1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/820/bon5yg7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/3651/bon10gd0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1632/bon50my5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/1019/bon100vl3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/8766/bon200qf2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/2081/bon500ah7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/7760/bon1000yd3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5126/bon5000es3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://www.bsi.si/


So long tolar, welcome euro! :cheers:

Slovenija je gostila enega največjih dogodkov v svoji zgodovini. Prevzem evra je na slovesnosti v Cankarjevem domu pozdravilo več kot 200 visokih evropskih gostov.

link: 24ur (http://24ur.com/naslovnica/novice/evro/20070115_3087785.php)

SIOL: http://novice.siol.net/default.aspx?site_id=1&page_id=4&article_id=1407011509005620&cid=103

:cheers:

Have any of you noticed rising prices like people in Italy and Greece complained about or has the conversion been better managed in Slovenia?

it has been better managed, but still there have been some price rises in some services, and things like coffe and stuff.. but nowhere near in the scale of what happened in Italy where the prices doubled.. we'll see, it doesn't seem that bad so far.. :cheers:

it has been better managed, but still there have been some price rises in some services, and things like coffe and stuff.. but nowhere near in the scale of what happened in Italy where the prices doubled.. we'll see, it doesn't seem that bad so far.. :cheers:Easy, rises will not happiend over night. That is long process, for example in period of the half year or year. Why will Slovenia be exception from rest of the Eurozone? Of course it will not. Lets be honest, my prediction is after one year from first EUR on Slovenian streets, all prices will be double. Just like in rest of Eurozone.

That's not true... C'mon... well of course prices will rise eventually... It's bound to happen sooner or later if we want to arrive at the european level. The prices in other (well some anyway) eurozone countries, however, skyrocketed immediately after the new currency, thus the euro, was introduced. We were just better prepared for all this, coz we had the chance to review and avoid the mistakes other countries made.

Easy, rises will not happiend over night. That is long process, for example in period of the half year or year. Why will Slovenia be exception from rest of the Eurozone? Of course it will not. Lets be honest, my prediction is after one year from first EUR on Slovenian streets, all prices will be double. Just like in rest of Eurozone.

Wow, and can you actually prove that all the prices doubled in the whole Eurozone?

Prices can double, like you said, but can they actually raise them now? Why didn't they double the prices suddenly at a point in time when the prospect of euro membership was not so close? By your logic they just as well could have.

What has happened has happened, they can't simply continue raising prices. Because now euro adoption is not an excuse anymore, since we have already adopted it, and the prices have been rounded. Raising the prices now by 100% would be like raising the prices in 1995 or 2004 by 100%.

Yeah, I don't think price rises should be exaggerated. I've visited France, Spain, Belgium, and Germany both before and after the Euro and to be honest I didn't notice much difference in the general cost of visiting compared to before the introduction. Maybe some things have increased but inflation happens anyway.

Last time I was in Slovenia a coffee cost me between 180 and 240 SIT so I guess it should now be €0.65 to €1.00

^^You'd be hard-pressed trying to find coffee for under €0.70 around here, but most places here charge around €0.70 to €0.90 for a cup of coffee. But prices before were around 180-220 SIT, so there was a slight increase in some places, while other decreased (due to increases in the past years). This is Nova Gorica though, Ljubljana is quite a bit more expensive. I'm not sure you can find coffee for under €1 there..

The cheapest I had last year was in a small bar in Kamnik, 140 SIT :banana:

Hehe, and the quality? :D

Not bad but not the best. I'm used to British coffee though which is usually crap (unless I make it of course) and costs €2-€4 . They do serve it in buckets here but i'd rather have a smaller cheaper coffee that tastes good personally.

(Our tea is better though :) )

Buckets?

Well, not quite but we have lots of American style coffee bars where they sell coffee in 500ml cups, you can get smaller ones of course but the price of a half size cup is much more than 50% of a large coffee so it makes people buy bigger sizes.

Okay, half a litre of coffee in one go. That is wacky.

U mean half a litre of coffe-tasting water :tongue2:

Nakon što je u Sloveniji uveden euro, trgovci su u zagrebačkim šoping centrima uočili pojačan broj kupaca iz susjedne države koje su u Hrvatsku privukle rasprodaje, niže cijene, ali i povrat poreza. Ministarstvo financija ističe da su do kraja studenoga prošle godine stranim kupcima vratili 24,8 milijuna kuna plaćenog PDV-a, pa Hrvatska postupno postaje država u koju se odlazi zbog mehrwertsteuera

http://www.vecernji-list.hr/home/manager/719212/index.do

^^ ala brate mehrwertsteuera :| zar niste mogli naći nekakvu hrvatsku riječ za to?! kao npr. što koristite zrakomlat za helikopter? :D:D

^^ ala brate mehrwertsteuera :| zar niste mogli na?i nekakvu hrvatsku rije? za to?! kao npr. što koristite zrakomlat za helikopter? :D:D

mirza zaboravljas da Hrvatska nije jedina slavenska zemlja u kojoj se za helikopter kaze zrakomlat ;) .. a stim nemislim juzne krajeve Bosne ^^

Nakon što je u Sloveniji uveden euro, trgovci su u zagrebačkim šoping centrima uočili pojačan broj kupaca iz susjedne države koje su u Hrvatsku privukle rasprodaje, niže cijene, ali i povrat poreza. Ministarstvo financija ističe da su do kraja studenoga prošle godine stranim kupcima vratili 24,8 milijuna kuna plaćenog PDV-a, pa Hrvatska postupno postaje država u koju se odlazi zbog mehrwertsteuera

http://www.vecernji-list.hr/home/manager/719212/index.do

:nuts: :D

I'd say this applies mostly only to those Slovenians who live close to Zagreb (like Brežice, Krško or Novo mesto at farthest). I can't imagine many people from Ljubljana or Maribor to go to Zagreb just for lower prices, I mean the transport costs as well of course, besides it's not like in socialism, when you actually couldn't get many things here. If I go to Zagreb, I go to the city itself, not some goddamn shopping!:rant: :angel:

^^True, in fact a lot of Croats do their shopping in Ljubljana..

mirza zaboravljas da Hrvatska nije jedina slavenska zemlja u kojoj se za helikopter kaze zrakomlat ;) .. a stim nemislim juzne krajeve Bosne ^^

tkoja? :P

tkoja? :P

pogledaj si na primjer ovu stranicu: http://www.foto-arena.net/picture_comments.php?id=12253

Isto tako je pogresno reci da je po hrvatskom pcela berimed.. berimed je madjarska rijec koja se ist toako koristi u slovackoj jer imaju veliku madjarsku manjinu ;)

A zamisli i to da i njemci ne koriste za zrakomlat englesku rijec helikopter nego hubschrauber.. kad bi se to nekako na nas prevelo znacilo = zracnisaraf ili nesto sto se u zrak zasarafuce .. hehe.. znas vec na sta mislim neznam ni ja kako bi se to pametno prevelo ;)

Isto tako imas masovno nacija i naroda koji imaju svoj vlastiti izraz za tu masinu koja mlati zrak da bi mogla se drzati na nebu ^^

^^ lol okej okej samo sam se šalio :) smiješno mi bilo zrakomlat,a o mehrwertsteueru da ne govorim ;) :D jer garant 80% Hrvata ne zna šta to znači :)

^^True, in fact a lot of Croats do their shopping in Ljubljana..

Go to H&M or Europark in Maribor! You will be suprised if you see/hear any Slovenes. Maribor is overcrowded with Croatians shopping.
That is good for our economy but i hate it, you have to wait in line to try clothes on for about 25 min, and of course you have to listen Janica`s and Ivica`s complaining about everything:bash: :ohno: :ohno: :ohno: :ohno:

and of course you have to listen Janica`s and Ivica`s complaining about everything:bash: :ohno: :ohno: :ohno: :ohno:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

^^True, in fact a lot of Croats do their shopping in Ljubljana..

Just did that today (BTC of course :) ) I came from Ljubljana 1 hour ago...

:lol: :lol: :lol:

no offense it was meant as joke:lol: :lol: :lol:

Go to H&M or Europark in Maribor! You will be suprised if you see/hear any Slovenes. Maribor is overcrowded with Croatians shopping.
That is good for our economy but i hate it, you have to wait in line to try clothes on for about 25 min, and of course you have to listen Janica`s and Ivica`s complaining about everything:bash: :ohno: :ohno: :ohno: :ohno:

I'm sensing some generalization in your words, correct me if I'm wrong..

Don't be so negative about it, okay? ;)

Ajajaj Hrvati, ni čudno, da vsi nakupujejo čez mejo, če imate pa samo en Interspar v Zadru.

Ajajaj Hrvati, ni čudno, da vsi nakupujejo čez mejo, če imate pa samo en Interspar v Zadru.

klinc pa Špar, kupujem samo v Mercatorju in samo slovensko hrano!:)

Morda je to tudi posledica, akcije, kupujte samo Hrvaške izdelke?

Ajajaj Hrvati, ni čudno, da vsi nakupujejo čez mejo, če imate pa samo en Interspar v Zadru.

Kaaj? Mislim da je H&M glavni razlog odlaska u Sloveniju, ovog drugog ima na bacanje i kod nas... (uključujući Interspar)

This thread would be best if closed...

Indeed and for future reference, watch it with those comments, guys.