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 LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) - Andrej Belinec searched his pockets for some small tolars for a movie ticket after a cashier told him she simply doesn't have enough euros for change on his 10,000 tolar note — about 42 euros. Such glitches were expected in Slovenia as businesses opened on Wednesday and began trading in euros — Slovenia's new currency as of Jan. 1 — on the first working day of the New Year.
Both currencies are in use for two weeks, with customers allowed to pay in tolars or euros, but the government says people should receive change only in euros. That has put pressure on retailers to do some quick arithmetic — converting 239.64 tolars to one euro.
"It costs 1,000 tolars; it's 4.19 euros," Marica Copic, 45, who sells wallets at an open market in downtown Ljubljana, answered swiftly when asked about one of them — though it actually would be 4.17 euros.
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