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1 Lats Foreign Rulers
| Issuer | Bank of Latvia |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 2014 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features the large coat of arms of the Republic of Latvia, similarly rendered as scattered fragments, centrally placed within the field as an artistic metaphor for national fragmentation. The date 2007 is positioned above the central device. Beneath the coat of arms, the Latvian patriotic motto DIEVS, TAVA ZEME DEG! (God, Thy Earth Is Aflame!), drawn from a celebrated Latvian poem, curves in a lower semi-arc. The denomination 1 LATS appears to the left of the central design. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark Latvia's 800th anniversary of recorded history, this coin commemorates the foreign powers — German crusading orders, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Swedish Empire, Russian Empire — that controlled Latvian territory across seven centuries before independence in 1918. The subject is pointed: Latvia spent more of its documented history under foreign administration than not.
KM#87 was struck at the Lithuanian Mint in Vilnius, an arrangement the Bank of Latvia used for several commemorative issues during this period.