Description:
Obverse
Embossed square surface with the number "10" impressed into it, the legend "REPUBLIKA SLOVENIJA" running to the left, and the denomination in words reading "DESET STOTINOV" and the year of coinage to the right.
Reverse
A proteus (salamder), with the Latin name "Proteus anguinus" written below it, and the nominal value, expressed in numbers, above it.
The Proteus is a salamander that retains larval characteristics (gills) and lives in Karstic caves in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It is comparable to the Mexican axolotl.
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