Banknotes and coins

Results of tender for designing drafts of occasional coins to be issued in 2022 and an additional issue of collector coins for 2021

07/21/2021 / Numismatic

In the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 31/21 the government of the Republic of Slovenia published a Decree determining to mark the following events by issuing occasional coins in 2022:

  • 150th anniversary of birth of architect Jože Plečnik (€2 commemorative coin) and
  • 150th anniversary of birth of painter Matija Jama (collector coins).

Additionally the government of the Republic of Slovenia published a Decree in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 36/21, with which it determined to issue an additional collector coins in 2021 to mark:

  • 30th anniversary of statehood of the Republic of Slovenia.

Banka Slovenije published a tender for designing drafts of occasional coins to be issued in 2022 and an additional issue in 2021 on April 9 2021. Tender was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 54/21 and on the Banka Slovenije's web page. By the end of the tender on May 17 2021 we received 29 drafts for commemorative coin to mark 150th anniversary of birth of architect Jože Plečnik, 11 drafts for collector coins to mark 150th anniversary of birth of painter Matija Jama and 11 drafts for collector coins to mark 30th anniversary of statehood of the Republic of Slovenia.


The Commission for issuing occasional coins, established by the Banka Slovenije and Ministry of finance, decided to award the following drafts for designing commemorative coin:

  1. prize (€3.000) for draft with code JTMM21 – author: Andrej Žerovnik;
  2. prize (€1.500)  for draft with code LJTS – author: Gregor Ivanušič;
  3. prize (€1.000) for draft with code NUK22: authors Danela Vidmar Podboj in Tomaž Podboj.

For collector coins to mark 150th anniversary of birth of painter Matija Jama the following drafts are awarded:

  1. prize (€3.000) for draft with code 2151-J – author: Matej Štanta;
  2. prize (€1.500) for draft with code BS2103 – author: Jure Korošec;
  3. prize (€1.000) for draft with code E2M1A – author: Matej Ramšak.

For collector coins to mark 30th anniversary of statehood of the Republic of Slovenia the following drafts are awarded:

  1. prize (€3.000) for draft with code 2329 – author: Gregor Ivanušič;
  2. prize (€1.500) for draft with code 968424131SI – author: Matej Štanta;
  3. prize (€1.000) for draft with code BCEFA – author: Lana Semečnik.

Occasional coins will be minted based on the drafts awarded with first prize.