Inner raised square contains value, lettering around outside, date on right (in line with numerals and at right angle to outside lettering). The lettering “Republic of Slovenia” and the denomination of the coin in words reading “10 stotins” is along the edge.

Olm salamander. Latin name below (Proteus anguinus) and denomination above.

The olm or proteus (Proteus anguinus) is an aquatic salamander in the family Proteidae, the only exclusively cave-dwelling chordate species found in Europe. In contrast to most amphibians, it is entirely aquatic; it eats, sleeps, and breeds underwater. Living in caves found in the Dinaric Alps, it is endemic to the waters that flow underground through the extensive limestone of the karst of Central and Southeastern Europe, specifically southern Slovenia, the basin of the Soča River (Italian: Isonzo) near Trieste, Italy, southwestern Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.