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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1418022, member: 39&quot;]Not much, I&#039;m afraid. A while ago I was surprised when I read about &quot;lip&quot; coins that had supposedly been issued by Slovenia shortly after the country&#039;s independence. After all, neighboring Croatia actually uses the denomination (1 kuna = 100 lipa) but when Slovenia issued its first &quot;own&quot; currency, they picked the name tolar, with stotins as the sub-unit ...</p><p><br /></p><p>So I learned that the &quot;Slovenian lipa&quot; was a series of unofficial or private issues that came out while the country became independent. The name means linden or lime (the tree), so the leaf makes sense. Here is an article from the Slovenian Wikipedia version; I don&#039;t understand the language but <a href="http://translate.google.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://translate.google.com/" rel="nofollow">Google Translate</a> helped. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Also, see the part at the bottom of <a href="http://www.preseren.net/ang/5-3_denar.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.preseren.net/ang/5-3_denar.asp" rel="nofollow">this page</a> ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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