History
When six countries signed the treaty founding the European Economic Community in Rome on March 25, 1957, Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia. Cut off from the nascent common market, it looked at Europe from afar.
Independent in 1991, it joined the European Union in 2004, then adopted the euro in 2007, the first of the new member states to do so. Fifty years after Rome, it was therefore part of the celebration from its very first year in the single currency.
On March 25, 2007, the anniversary date, the thirteen countries of the Eurozone put the same coin into circulation. For Slovenia, this is the first 2 Euro commemorative coin, struck with a mintage of 400,000 by the Mint of Finland.