Catalog
10 Litu
| Issuer | Lietuvos Bankas (Bank of Lithuania) |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Currency | New litas (1993-2014) |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue, dark green and brown-violet tones over a multicolour guilloche underprint. Intaglio portraits of aviators Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas are positioned at right against a fine-line rosette background, with denomination numerals and issuer inscriptions in dark blue at left and lower margins. The note's face carries the date 1997 and the title of the Bank of Lithuania's Board Chairman. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Lithuania's litas was restored in 1993 after the country broke from the Soviet ruble system — the 1997 dated series, of which this is part, was the first full redesign issued once the currency had stabilized enough to warrant long-term planning. G+D's Leipzig facility had been printing Lithuanian notes since the early restoration issues, giving the series a consistent technical baseline across denominations.
Engraver G. Jonaitis is one of the few Lithuanian nationals credited on a G+D-produced note from this period, suggesting direct collaboration rather than standard house engraving.