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1 Lats Coin of Fortune
| Issuer | Bank of Latvia |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Composition | Gold (.999) plated silver (.925) (obverse gold plated) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 LATS |
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Issued by the Bank of Latvia as part of its collector series built around Latvian folk symbolism, this piece draws on the figure of Laima — the Baltic goddess of fate and fortune whose role in Latvian mythology has no clean parallel in classical traditions. The gold plating on the obverse is not decorative whimsy; it deliberately marks the sacred from the mundane, a distinction embedded in Baltic folk practice long before Latvia's first independence in 1918.
KM#56 was struck in limited numbers for the collector market and never saw general circulation.