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1 Lats Rundale Palace
| Issuer | Bank of Latvia |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Engraver(s) | Jānis Strupulis |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bird's-eye aerial view of Rundāle Palace and its surrounding formal geometric park rendered in fine detail across the central field. Flanking the architectural imagery at the top, two semicircular legends arc on either side: SCHLOSS RUHENTHAL to the left, the historic German name of the palace, and RUNDĀLES PILS to the right, its Latvian designation. Beneath the central imagery, the ornate monogram of Ernst Johann, Duke of Courland, is prominently placed in the lower field as a decorative and historical accent. |
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| Mintage | 2011 - Proof - 5,000 |
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Rundale Palace, built in two phases between 1736 and 1768, was designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli — the same architect responsible for the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and Peterhof. Commissioned by Ernst Johann von Biron, Duke of Courland and favorite of Empress Anna of Russia, the palace fell into severe disrepair after Biron's political exile to Siberia halted construction mid-project. Restoration work began in earnest only in 1972 and continues to this day.
Latvia has issued a number of collector lats tied to architectural heritage, and Rundale is among the more historically loaded choices — a building that spent as many decades abandoned as it did occupied.