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1 Lats Destiny
| Issuer | Bank of Latvia |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 1 Lats (1 LVL) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 LATS |
| Edge | Plain |
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Issued as part of Latvia's "One Lats" collector series, this piece appeared four years before Latvia's scheduled euro adoption negotiations intensified — a period when the Bank of Latvia leaned heavily into silver commemoratives as a means of asserting the lats as a culturally significant currency rather than merely a transitional one. The "Destiny" theme references Latvian folk philosophy, specifically the concept of Laima, the deity of fate central to Latvian dainas.
KM#52 was struck to proof quality with a mintage low enough to keep secondary market premiums firm.