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10 Latu 20th Century Riga
| Issuer | Bank of Latvia |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 2014 |
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| Obverse description | At the center of the obverse is the coat of arms of Riga as officially adopted in 1925, rendered in fine relief within the coin's field. The heraldic motif displays the traditional elements of the city's armorial bearings in a formal, detailed style. Beneath the central device, the denomination numeral '10' and the inscription 'LATU' are clearly legible, flanking the date '1998' arranged in a horizontal line along the lower portion of the field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a central depiction of the Liberty figure that crowns the Freedom Monument (Brīvības piemineklis) in Riga, shown in high relief with characteristic upraised arms bearing three stars. Arranged in a left semicircle around the central motif is the inscription 'BRĪVĪBAS PIEMINEKLIS', while the inscription 'LATVIJAS VALSTS XX GS.' is disposed in a corresponding right semicircle, together framing the figure. Below the central device, the inscription 'RIGA-800' appears in the exergual area, commemorating the 800th anniversary of the city of Riga. |
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Latvia restored its pre-war lats currency in 1993 after breaking from the Soviet ruble zone, and this 1998 issue belongs to a commemorative program explicitly designed to invoke the interwar republic — the period when the lats first circulated, from 1922 until Soviet occupation ended it in 1940. The denomination itself carries political weight that no post-Soviet Baltic currency program was shy about pressing.
KM#31 is part of a multi-coin series honoring Riga's architectural heritage across centuries. The 20th-century installment focuses on the Art Nouveau building boom that made Riga one of Europe's most concentrated examples of Jugendstil architecture — much of it constructed between 1896 and 1913.