ZET explains the mystery of the 10-kuna ticket: How it reached a driver

A tram ticket marked with a price of 10 kuna, bought recently from a driver in Zagreb, turned out to be neither a printing mistake nor an invalid ticket. ZET explained that the ticket likely came from an older supply left over from before Croatia adopted the euro.

The operator described the incident as isolated. ZET said the driver probably still had tickets from an earlier batch assigned to him, adding that it has not encountered similar cases in its driver sales network for a long time.

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We assume that in this particular situation, the driver had a somewhat older stock of tickets, meaning a ticket from an earlier driver allocation.

The kuna price does not affect the ticket’s validity. ZET said the ticket price itself has not changed, and Croatian law allows transport tickets showing prices in kuna to remain in use until existing stocks run out, provided the required conversion rules and fixed exchange rate apply. Ten kuna equals 1.33 euros.

ZET advises passengers to exchange old tickets only when the ticket price has changed. Otherwise, no exchange is necessary. The operator said its regular sales outlets now distribute only tickets displaying euro amounts, and attributed the unusual sale to an old stock held by the driver rather than an ongoing practice on Zagreb’s trams and buses.

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The price of the transport ticket in question has not changed, so displaying the amount in kuna does not in itself affect its validity.