Catalog
0.10 Talonas 'Coupon'
| Issuer | Lithuania |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Reference(s) | P#29 |
| Obverse description | Brown on yellow-gold underprint with an intricate green guilloche wave pattern. A central vignette of botanical plant sprays — rendered in brown intaglio-style line engraving — frames the large denomination numeral '0.10' at center, with a legal warning text inscribed within the numeral field. The word 'TALONAS' appears in spaced capitals along the upper border, and a two-letter prefix serial number is printed at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow-gold ground with a uniform wavy-line guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The Lithuanian Coat of Arms — the Vytis, an armored knight on horseback within a shield — is rendered in gray intaglio engraving at center. The inscription 'LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKA' runs in spaced capitals along the upper border, with the year '1991' printed at lower center. |
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Lithuania restored its monetary independence in stages, and the talonas was the transitional instrument — introduced in May 1991 while the Soviet ruble was still in circulation, initially as a ration coupon for basic goods before being formalized as a parallel currency later that year. The "coupon" designation in collector usage reflects that origin precisely; these were never conceived as banknotes in the conventional sense.
The series was printed domestically under considerable constraint, which shows in the modest production quality relative to contemporaneous Lithuanian issues printed abroad.