Day of Slovenian Sport on collector coin

Banka Slovenije has issued a collector coin to mark the Day of Slovenian Sport, a national holiday celebrated on 23 September. In this way we are honouring an event of great significance to the country, namely the first two Olympic gold medals for an independent Slovenia.

Slovenian sportspeople are achieving outstanding success in a variety of sports competitions and in a number of different areas of sport. The date of 23 September 2000 is written in gold in the annals of Slovenian sport, for it was then that independent Slovenia won its first two Olympic gold medals at the Sydney Games. The gold medallists were rowers Luka Špik and Iztok Čop, and shooter Rajmond Debevec. At Banka Slovenije we have decided to celebrate this momentous event by issuing a collector coin in this year’s euro coin set.

To mark the occasion we will host all three of independent Slovenia’s first gold medallists at an event at the Banka Slovenije museum on 2 October, where they will be presented with a collector coin. 

The collector coin marking the Day of Slovenian Sport is available from 19 September from the usual outlets, namely at the Banka Slovenije counters, at selected branches of Deželna banka Slovenije, and at Moro & Kunst, in gold, silver and bimetallic versions. In addition to the aforementioned coin, we also issued a collector coin marking the 110th anniversary of the birth of Slovenian writer Boris Pahor, while a commemorative coin marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Josip Plemelj is expected to be issued in December. For more information, see this link.

Figure: Obverse and reverse of the bimetallic collector coin marking the Day of Slovenian Sport