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.
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.