Catalog
10 Litu
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas |
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| Year | 1927 |
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| Value | 10 Litų |
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| Obverse lettering | LIETUVOS BANKAS 10 DEŠIMTS LITŲ 10 LIETUVOS BANKAS KAUNAS, 1927 m. LAPKRICIO mén. 24 d. VIENAS LITAS TURI 0,150462 GRAMŲ GRYNO AUKSO. (Translation: Lithuanian Bank Ten Litu Kaunas, November 24, 1927. One Litas contains 0.150462 grams of pure gold.) |
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| Reverse lettering | LIETUVOS BANKO BANKNOTAS DEŠIMTS LITŲ BANKNOTU PADIRBIMAS ISTATYMU BAUDZIAMAS (Translation: Lithuanian Bank Banknote Ten Litu Forgery of Banknotes Punished by Law) |
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Lithuania's 1927 currency series was issued under the litas monetary system established just four years earlier, when the litas replaced the unstable ostmark and auksinas that had circulated during and after the German occupation. Bradbury Wilkinson were a logical choice for the commission — the London firm had long supplied banknotes and securities to smaller European states that lacked domestic intaglio printing capacity, and their work for Lithuania in this period is considered among the cleaner output of the series.
The litas held its gold peg with unusual discipline through the late 1920s, which meant notes from this issue actually circulated under relatively stable conditions — a rarity for interwar Eastern Europe.