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1 Rublis Green issue
| Issuer | Latvijas Valsts Kases (Latvian State Treasury) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green note with an intricate geometric and folk-ornament border frame characteristic of early Latvian currency design. The central field carries the inscriptions LATWIJAS WALSTS KASES SIHME in bold letterpress, with WEENS RUBLIS indicating the denomination below, flanked by large numeral 1 corner vignettes. A series letter and six-digit serial number appear on a light guilloche underprint band, accompanied by two manuscript signatures and a text clause in Latvian dated 1919 at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | LATWIJAS WALSTS KASES SIHME Serija E WEENS RUBLIS Walsts kases sihmes nodroschinatas ar wisseem walsts ihpaschumeem. Par Walsts kases sihmu wiltajchanu, waj wiltatu sihmu usglabjchanu un iglabjchanu wainigos sodas ar wisu testbu sawendychanu un spalda darbom lihdz 12 gadeem. 1919 |
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Latvia's State Treasury issued this note during the first year of independence, when the country was simultaneously fighting Soviet and German forces and had no functioning central bank. The Rublis series was a stopgap — printed under severe constraint — and the "green issue" designation distinguishes it from later color variants of the same denomination that followed as printing capacity stabilized.
Pick 2 is notably scarcer than Pick 1 in circulated grades, likely because the green printing run was smaller. The political situation in 1919 meant distribution was uneven across Latvian territory, much of which remained contested well into the year.