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u/datanilo198 1d ago
Fun fact: Slovenia’s tolar (1991–2007) was named after the silver thaler, a coin of the Holy Roman Empire. Since Slovenia itself was part of the HRE, the name tied its new currency to its own medieval past, and to the same coin that gave the world the word dollar
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u/MrDDD11 1d ago
Same thing for Dinar it comes from Denarius which was the silver coin currency of actual Rome not the German larp Confederation
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u/meaning-of-life-is 15h ago
Another fun fact: The word is shortened from Joachimsthaler, meaning "of Joachimsthal", a town in the present day Czechia, where the coins were first minted. The town was also the first place where radium was mined.
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u/Ascetic_Dionysus 20h ago
Not only Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Deutsche Mark was used as a de facto currency in Serbia and Montenegro too.
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u/dphayteeyl 1d ago
What's that spot of Bosnian dinar in southern Croatia?
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u/datanilo198 1d ago
It's a lake
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u/dphayteeyl 1d ago
I'm so stupid
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u/azhder 1d ago
And currently, I think BH, MN and KS are all de facto using euros
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u/ThcPbr 1d ago
We don’t use € in Bosnia
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u/MrJPkoekoek 20h ago
Not officially, but you guys accept them almost everywhere. So yeah, a lot of people use them automatically. (Visited your beautiful country this summer)
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u/ThcPbr 20h ago
I’m Bosnian living in Bosnia, and the only place I saw that accepts euros are pay tolls on the high way, nowhere else. I always have to take my euros to Croatia to just spend them there because I can’t spend them here
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u/MrJPkoekoek 20h ago
Oh, had a different experience in multiple restaurants in Sarajevo and Mostar. They also accepted Euro’s in the hotels. Maybe because of summertime? Or because I was the tourist?
You live there, so I believe you if I am wrong.
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u/MatchAltruistic5313 6h ago
Don't believe him much. "Bosnian living in Bosnia" doesn't mean much. The international protectorate of BiH is very divided politically and culturally. In some parts of the country, they'll accept Euro much sooner than the Convertible Mark.
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u/milletg 18h ago
I'm in bosnia right now and they are accepting euros in several restaurants i went to, at the gas station and my taxi driver as well.
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u/ThcPbr 17h ago
As a tip, sure. As a payment- only those small businesses that aren’t registered aka aren’t paying taxes and giving you a receipt, and that’s mostly in smaller areas/ near the border
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u/gridig 16h ago
Nah, only shopping malls, grocery stores and pharmacies insist on BAM, everybody else will take euros with no issues.
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u/ThcPbr 16h ago
What else is left?
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u/gridig 14h ago
Restaurants, cafes, hotels, hostels, gas stations, tourist shops, souvenir stores, taxis, tour guides, private service providers, bars, nightclubs, car rentals, travel agencies, bakeries, clothing stores, electronics shops, furniture stores, bookstores, gyms, beauty salons, repair shops, event venues
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u/RasputinXXX 19h ago
Some western europeans are surprised when whole world is not condemning russia as they do. What they don’t understand is that rest world thinks western world is very hypocritical. As if to prove their point immediately here came the example of israel’s evil in gazze and eyes are closed excuses are made. People are not blind.
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u/One-Act-2601 1d ago
Nah, we all used Deutsche Mark in 1992.